I believe that football is too dangerous for children. It said in the article that most NFL players won’t even let their own children play football. Every ten years, 1,000 youth football players have concussions. That’s over 1,000 people whose lives could be messed up just because of football. It is just too risky. Something needs to be done about it. A single concussion can cause permanent brain damage. There are some players who have had several concussions. If they have a concussion, and it isn’t…
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worried about in football? Yes they should be worried about, just not obsessed about. People have been trying to fix football since 1905, it is 2016 and there is still no solution. People are spending tons of money on studies, tests, and experiments trying to make the game of football less dangerous. “Pear said removing violence from football, is like removing trees from a forest”(McGrath). No matter how much money they spend football will always be dangerous. It can be less dangerous but it will always…
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Though Banks, Burleigh, Golinkin, and Flynn all discourse the dangers of football; Banks argument is more understandable to people. Football is a dangerous game that is the combination of hits and runs. Although, NFL pay the former player to make concussions-related cases go away; football players have highly risk for “traumatic brain injuries” (Banks 464) because of the hits they get during the game. On the contrary, the NFL it's changing the rules of the game for safety reasons; the game will never…
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obesity, but for me what comes to mind is Football. A lot of Americans growing up have football as a part of their life specifically among boys. Over the years, though, many smaller cities around the country have watched their football programs dwindle down in numbers mainly because of the increased number of concussions that have nearly doubled since the 1990s. While parents get more paranoid with increased injuries, I believe that the benefits of playing football will benefit a child tremendously even…
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topic that continues to be discussed in football since 2013. It could be said that with all the recent concussion injuries…
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heart attack. He had CTE. MIke Webster suffered from over 25,500 blows to head. That’s bound to do some damage. 87 percent of 91 ex-NFL players had a disease linked to head trauma. Because of playing football, Mike Webster died. This is relevant because he is not the only person to die from playing football in the NFL. I don’t think people should play in the NFL because of all the possible injuries that could happen. One of the main reasons I am against people playing in the NFL is CTE. CTE is “Chronic…
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Football--America’s Greatest Sport Football is a tradition that carries from state to state, like Wisconsin’s Jump Around or NFL on Thanksgiving Day. Every choice a person makes comes with consequences, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make that choice. Children have very free-spirited characters; they will do almost anything that makes them happy. Along with allowing a kid to participate in a sport they love, sports come with great benefits. “This year, 3 million kids from the ages of 6 to 14…
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What do you think about when you think of football? When people are asked about football normally they think of things such as hard hits, injuries, and highlight plays. In this paper we will be focusing on injuries and more specifically on concussions and how they affect the game. “According to NFL data obtained by The Associated Press, 154 concussions that happened in practices or games were reported from the start of the preseason through the eighth week of the 2010 regular season.” With this being…
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serious issue and usually leads to more serious things such as violence and crime. UNDERAGE DRINKING IS widely recognized as a leading public health and social problem in the United States (1) and is associated with the 3 leading causes of death among youth (unintentional injury, homicide, and suicide). (2) A number of studies have shown the harmful health and social consequences of underage drinking, such as neglecting responsibilities, getting into fights or arguments, missing school, driving after…
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sports should be played but I think otherwise because it’s dangerous to the body and to the mind of a young child and other people. Others debate about whether or not playing these kind of sports is good because it may boost kids self-esteem and it can teach them life lessons and say they’re having fun… but, they don’t focus on what playing competitive sports doesn’t do for them. When someone makes a statement about it being dangerous there’s always that claim that says, “But doctors and medical…
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