Big Hits Broken Dreams Analysis

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In the documentary, Big Hits, Broken Dreams, the risks of football become apparent when a high school football players dies from head trauma. Jaquan Waller was a sixteen year old high school football player at J.H Rose High School in Greenville, North Carolina. In 2008, Waller died from a second concussion. The first occasion when he was hit he experienced headaches and had problem with his balance. At the time, J.H Rose had no athletic trainer at practice to diagnose him with a concussion. Forty hours after Waller’s first concussion, he returned to play without any specialist’s leeway. After one hit on the field, Waller got a second concussion, which brought on a subdural hematoma. Waller was dying from the swilling of his brain and from the