How Does Football Affect People's Life

In America, most people believe that the best way to make their children successful in life is for them to succeed in school, have the highest grades possible and go to the most prestigious college possible. Parents tend to concentrate on just the academics for the sake of their children however they completely ignore the extracurricular side for children such as sports. Participating in sports brings out more than just staying active it builds character in them that will carry on beyond the sport and into their life. To some students primarily in high school, sports are seen as a way out for them which can lead to a career. Also sports can provide to serve as a second family to those who lack stability or a proper parent figure at home. All
In my first year of football, I noticed there were a number of my teammates that were spending additional time to football than the rest of the time. Before and after practice they would be applying themselves in order to get college offers. They would be working on themselves physically and mentally depending on where their weaknesses were. I found out that football was the only way that some of my teammates could go to college their families didn’t have the income to send their kids to college. I know what the counter-argument for this is “with all the time they spend on football they could be using that time to focus on school work” This is not true my teammates that ended up earning a football scholarship had high GPA’s and were part of National Honors Society which is a program filled with honor students. With the bad rep that high school sports are getting like, football is seen as a waste of time when that's not the case to some it's their ticket out. One other thing to consider that not many people can understand is that for some athletes the sport they are a part of is what makes them who they