Argumentative Essay On Contact Sports
After watching the video “Big Hits, Broken Dreams,” it opened my eyes tremendously to the risks of playing contact sports at a young age. The debate question that I feel is the biggest question to ask is, do the risks outweigh the benefits to young people playing contact sports? I think that this is the question that most parents ask themselves when their son decides to play a sport like football. After watching the video, it showed how high schools in North Carolina prior to the death of Jaquan Weller were very uninterested in head injuries amongst middle and high school students. I started playing middle school football in 2009, and the school system made it mandatory that all parents and athletes go to a concussion seminar before every season. Also, there were three sports trainers on the felid
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The point that comes up in many cases is that there has been a huge surge in the number of concussions nationwide. PhD Greg Myer, thinks that this fact is often misleading, due to increased technology and ways of identifying concussions. He brings up the point that concussions are no more frequent then 5 decades ago. The research he has gathered found that of 100 NFL players that suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, it has yet been seen to be diagnosed in kids that are involved with lower level football such as “peewee football.” Greg Myer also brings up the discussion that the effects of being a active and developing the skills of being apart a team are far more beneficial then missing out on playing sports and risking the chance of getting injured (Myer,2016). Although there are benefits of playing contact sports, we all know the dangerous risks of playing them. After reading a article on the cons of playing football, it does raise some questions about the safety of our children. After looking at some other research, playing football and other sports obviously posses a risk to
The point that comes up in many cases is that there has been a huge surge in the number of concussions nationwide. PhD Greg Myer, thinks that this fact is often misleading, due to increased technology and ways of identifying concussions. He brings up the point that concussions are no more frequent then 5 decades ago. The research he has gathered found that of 100 NFL players that suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, it has yet been seen to be diagnosed in kids that are involved with lower level football such as “peewee football.” Greg Myer also brings up the discussion that the effects of being a active and developing the skills of being apart a team are far more beneficial then missing out on playing sports and risking the chance of getting injured (Myer,2016). Although there are benefits of playing contact sports, we all know the dangerous risks of playing them. After reading a article on the cons of playing football, it does raise some questions about the safety of our children. After looking at some other research, playing football and other sports obviously posses a risk to