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    Have you ever played football? Did you like it? Well‚ football is dangerous sport. Football is dangerous enough that you have to even quit football. Kids should not be able to play football‚ because football causes a lot of concussions‚ and concussion is a serious problem. Football players get serious injuries such as broken elbows. Also‚ there is CTE‚ which is a dangerous brain disease. First‚ football causes lots of CTE. Basically‚ CTE is Chronic traumatic encephalopathy‚ and it is type of brain

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    very entertaining blood rushing sport and in some cases all a student feels they have to live for. Most Americans mistakenly believe that all injuries in football are easily taken care of or petty which is not true. In Fact plenty of injuries are concussions and brain damage is much harder to recover from when your kid vs an adult. Football is too dangerous for high school due to the fact of the kids are not fully developed‚ the equipment is not protective enough‚ and there have been plenty injuries

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    I came across this documentary on PBS titled “A League of Denial” (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/league-of-denial/). This documentary explores the unreported and hidden concussion related injuries in the NFL. “A League of Denial” piques my interest. It begs the question why were these injuries hidden; who knew‚ why they did nothing‚ and how could the players do nothing? Of course‚ one obvious answer is money‚ but I would like to analyze how sports tend to perpetuate this machismo persona

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    Snap‚Did you know that foot ball players get a lot of concussions during their years of being in the NFL.Some foot ball players get hurt so bad that they can’t play for a year.This is going to be about how we can make foot ball safer.I think that we should make foot ball safer. To kick it off‚ "foot ball players serve great risks to there health.They also can get hurt very badly.They can also get very severe brain disorders from getting hit by another player.And memory loss to.Foot ball players

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    Should your child be able to play football at an early age. Children under the age of 10 shouldn’t be able to play because eighty-seven of 91 former NFL players who donated their brains to science after death tested positive for a brain disease! Even professional football player can get hurt or brain diseases. Another reason‚ When Oakland Raiders NFL running back Maurice Jones-Drew retired recently at just 29 years old‚ he said his life had been focused on football for 24 years and he needed a change

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    Rugby is Safer Than Football With rugby’s growing popularity in the US‚ it is starting to get noticed by greater amounts of people and is now being compared to American football. But the biggest conversation is about the safety of each sport. Some say that rugby is football but without the pads and so that automatically makes it more dangerous‚ but not using pads does not mean that it is going to get someone hurt more often. Besides‚ the one who says rugby is more dangerous hasn’t looked at football’s

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    Encephalopathy First described in the year 1928 (McKee 2010)‚ Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that has been found to be the cause of retired NFL linebacker Junior Seau’s suicide. The disease deteriorated his brain and hindered his ability to think logically. Seau is not the only retired NFL player found to have had CTE through autopsy following their death. Mike Webster was the first football player found to have CTE‚ when scientists found the characteristic buildup

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    and it will affect their brain for the worse before it’s developed. First‚ high impact sports can be dangerous to kids and young adults because it affects their brain in a terrible way before the brain is fully grown. “Concern over concussions has filtered down from NFL to colleges‚ high school and youth leagues.” (Hard Knocks) Bryce Monti is a football player

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    Julio Perez 301:05 Research Paper/Draft3 Athletes’ Livelihood and Technology Football has been America’s sport for decades and it is mainly played in the United States. Health risks have raised insecurities within the NFL and it extended to Youth Football. In “The ‘Inherent Risk’ Doctrine‚ Amateur Coaching Negligence‚ and The Goal of Loss Avoidance” by Timothy B. Fitzgerald‚ he talks about how sports injury‚ typically football‚ has become so common that they are becoming a social issue

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    In concussion Dr Omalu is a pathologist‚ who finds neurological deterioration in Mike Webster’s brain a former hall of famer. Dr. Omalu decides to name his discovery chromatic traumatic encephalopathy(CTE). Later on he gets his breakthrough publishing it in a medical journal. Dr omulu sets out on a journey to notify people about CTE and the great damage it is cause in football. Dr Omalu status as an immigrant hurted his mission to get people to believe him about CTE. He went through struggles to

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