Don T Let Kids Play Football Analysis

Parents protect their children from drugs and dangerous situations for eighteen yeas only to realize that they should have protected them from their own good judgement. It has been known for over two decades that continuous blows to the head during physical performance in sports, places athletes at a high risk of permanent brain damage. These sports also pose a threat to adolescent children due to the connection between brain damage and conditions such as depression, suicidal thoughts, and memory loss. “Don’t let kids play football” is rhetorically persuasive because of the speakers’ background relating to the human brain, suggesting that the audience is responsible for the harm caused to children when playing dangerous sports, and effectively emphasizing the idea of protecting all children from harm.
With an increased number of concussions in children in contact sports, Doctor Omalu committed himself to
“We must have the same when it comes to protecting the organ that defines who we are as human beings”, this quote effectively points out the idea that with the current knowledge human beings have on the effects of participating in contact sports; we should refrain from playing them. This quote also portrays that when humans obtain information about actions that could negatively affect their wellbeing, we refrain from performing these actions and must have the same state of mind when participating in sports that can cause brain damage. Another persuasive fact brought up was “In more than 30 years of looking at normal brain cells in the microscope, I have yet to see a neuron that naturally creates a new neuron to regenerate itself.” which informs readers about the importance of brains fragile state due to its inability of repairing the damage caused by high impact