Leaving aside the strawman that people are tuning out football to watch more girls' soccer, that's a weird study.. concussions as % of total injuries... does girls' soccer have the same baseline injury rate as football? That seems.... unlikely.
Yeah, you misidentified that scarecrow.
Eyeballs are not leaving football for girls soccer. But football seems to be the only sport that people cite CTE as a reason for no longer watching, despite other sports having significant concussion issues and nowhere near the same level of prevention effort.
As for comparison, this study in Minnesota showed that the two sports have an essentially identical concussion rates.
What it really means is that because of the war(s) of the last twenty years, and football, we understand TBI much better than we ever have and I imagine we are in for some more surprises like the study above concerning brain injuries. If brain injuries suffered by willing participants make you want to not watch a certain sport, you are crossing more than one sport off of your viewing list.A study this year led by Northwestern orthopedist Wellington Hsu showed high school football produced 9.41 concussions for every 10,000 athlete exposures, with an exposure defined as one player participating in one practice or one game. Girls’ soccer had the second-highest rate, at 9.10, with boys’ soccer considerably lower, at 3.03.
That study also showed concussions make up 34.5 percent of all girls’ soccer injuries, compared to 24.7 percent in football, and 18.9 percent in boys’ soccer.
http://www.startribune.com/more-dangerous-than-football-girls-soccer-concussion-fears-blur-state-championship-week-buzz/454514113/#1