High School Football Persuasive Essay
Many people have argued that, “Should we ban high school football?” One of the main reason’s why we should outlaw the sport is due to head injuries, or injuries in general. Now granted, we cannot protect kids 24/7. Injuries in sports are just common things that occur. We can only do our best to prevent children from hurting themselves. 60% of head trauma actually comes from football. This head trauma is commonly known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE. Though CTE’s symptoms are not as well known to pediatricians or doctors alike, research does show that it increases such behavior as extreme aggressiveness, depression, suicidal thoughts, and/or abuse of drugs and alcohol later on in an ex-players lifetime. CTE was first discovered
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When a player has any type of injury(broken arm, sprained ankle, and most commonly a concussion), doctors and pediatricians alike generally tell a kid, “You’ll be fine,” or “You can go back to playing tomorrow.” Now of course they won’t send you a kid out that quickly with a sprained or a broken limb, but more often than not, doctors will let players go back out onto the football field when they think the player has a very mild concussion. This is where the brain disease CTE comes in. Doctors and pediatricians, judging from a statistical standpoint, do not do a thorough job of looking over a players brain. Now, medics don’t have x-ray vision to see what happened, but they generally don’t see the actual problems going on on the field. They might think that the player has only “normal” symptoms, and this is the reason doctors let kids go back to playing football pre-maturely. This is why medical researchers have called high school football a “high risk contact sport.” Unhealthy practices follow when the coaches are pressing their players to try their hardest to basically “crush” or “kill” their opponent. Team physicians are no better, and they are the ones who say they are “taking care of….” the kids on the field. Two kids from the states of Ohio and Texas have died because of premature playing(3). So why should we ban high school football? Simple. The stats and medical research will
When a player has any type of injury(broken arm, sprained ankle, and most commonly a concussion), doctors and pediatricians alike generally tell a kid, “You’ll be fine,” or “You can go back to playing tomorrow.” Now of course they won’t send you a kid out that quickly with a sprained or a broken limb, but more often than not, doctors will let players go back out onto the football field when they think the player has a very mild concussion. This is where the brain disease CTE comes in. Doctors and pediatricians, judging from a statistical standpoint, do not do a thorough job of looking over a players brain. Now, medics don’t have x-ray vision to see what happened, but they generally don’t see the actual problems going on on the field. They might think that the player has only “normal” symptoms, and this is the reason doctors let kids go back to playing football pre-maturely. This is why medical researchers have called high school football a “high risk contact sport.” Unhealthy practices follow when the coaches are pressing their players to try their hardest to basically “crush” or “kill” their opponent. Team physicians are no better, and they are the ones who say they are “taking care of….” the kids on the field. Two kids from the states of Ohio and Texas have died because of premature playing(3). So why should we ban high school football? Simple. The stats and medical research will