article_snippet: Last month, Debra Pyka and Debra Pyka son's estate filed a lawsuit against Pop Pop Warner football for $5 million, claiming the nonprofit failed to protect the nonprofit youngest players and warn its youngest players and its youngest players parents about the permanent dangers of head trauma.
article_snippet: a lawsuit against Pop Warner football further alleges that Pyka's son and other children were intentionally put in danger because Pop Warner Pop Warner used amateur coaches with short tenures, who were never properly trained in the game of football, injury prevention, concussion or head injury identification.
article_snippet: Since filing Pyka suit, Pyka, a registered nurse, said Pyka's found some solace by connecting with other parents who want to make football safer for children, but Pyka also has received plenty of hateful emails criticizing Pyka for allowing Pyka to play in the first place.
article_snippet: Critics say that Pyka knew what Pyka was doing when Pyka signed Pyka up to play football and some even suggest that Pyka should be charged with murder for allowing Joseph to sign up for football, Pyka told me, clearly upset.
article_snippet: Clearly, the lawsuit faces obstacles, especially since Chernach did play other sports
article_snippet: But Pyka and Pyka attorney, Gordon Johnson, at the Brain Injury Law Group, which is representing Chernach's estate, insist this case is not just about winning.
article_snippet: Pyka and her attorney, Gordon Johnson, at the Brain Injury Law Group, which is representing Chernach's estate are going after the economics of youth football leagues.
article_snippet: And if Pyka and her attorney, Gordon Johnson, at the Brain Injury Law Group, which is representing Chernach's estate win the lawsuit the lawsuit may be less possible for those leagues to buy the insurance policies that allow very young children to play tackle football.