Football is Dangerous

Football is known to be a famous sport in grade school, high school, and college. Most boys and girls play but football has a high rate for injuries. Some players develop a head trauma disease. Injuries do not have to be a part of the game and there are ways to reduce the number. Coachers can change the practice and can make ways to where they play safe but have fun at the same time. Positions with the greatest risk of injury were running backs and linebackers. Additional instruction on appropriate tackling and blocking techniques can reduce the risk of injury during running plays. C.T.E is a head trauma induced disease linked to depression and impulse – control problems, memory loss, and dementia. More than 20 deceased N.F.L players have been found that have C.T.E. Overall, football is too dangerous in grade school, high school, and college or even just playing outside of school. There are too many injuries and serious stuff that can happen. Football players in high school can get C.T.E. at an early age and that’s concerning. Football players get hurt and want to speed the process of healing, they tell their coaches they are ok, and even more hurt than before. Health is always the first priority players need to look at. If they just play football, drained then maybe they need a break. If the players get hurt and try to speed the injury process, then they end up getting more hurt and they might make it worse and might not play no more.

Although football is a popular sport, there are ways to reduce the injury rate. According to Ellen Kuwana, “neuroscience for kids’ writer” recorded more than 3,300 hits to the head during 10 games and 35 practice sessions in (2003). Football is a competitive sport, and some parents and coaches push the kids to be better than the other in the sport. Parents push their kids because they want them to succeed in their choice in sports. So, when parents push their kids, they tend to talk to their coaches too also do it. Coaches can ask to change the play of the game and practice gear. (Kuwana) Some gear is years old and not updated, but still had it for back up if the players forgot their gear or even just to hand it out. When the players get into that they’re going to win, they tend to get competitive, and they play rough. Some People and players forget sports is for fun you don’t have to be rough to win, it’s all in teamwork, trust your team and that’s how you win. Sometimes players, they even play rough on the practice game with just their teammates. Players tend to get mad when the competitor hit them on purpose or accidentally, they tend to try to fight back. They might be having a bad day or just something might have got them mad, and they get on the field and take it all out not worrying about the competitor or what their coach says. Football isn’t supposed to be a violent game to get injuries. (Kuwana) Younger players watch sports or even go to games with parents or coaches. They look at their idol and they tend to want to be just like them. So, meaning if the player gets competitive, then they look at that everything their idol do, they learn how rough they play and everything their idol does. Some players have bad days but they still have to play, and that’s dangerous for other players.

Appropriate shoving, blocking, and tackling is unnecessary in the game also. Linebackers and running backs risk getting injuries more. The quarterback gets hit less because they must throw the ball, and his teammates watch over him while he does it. Such as the offensive lineman his job in the team is to block. However, the other players block too but it’s far more dangerous in general. When you block, you don’t have to go overboard, just try to distract the rival and help the quarterback make a touchdown. Although the whole team helps, so sometimes the team can’t get hurt. Players can practice different techniques to avoid injury and getting hurt in the process. For the wide receiver their job is to pass the ball to the quarterback and the most injuries they get is knee injuries. (Kuwana) The most injury for younger children is contusions, which is head trauma, and it is bad for their heads if they are still going to school. Most students still must wake up early in the morning to get on the bus or even just to get a ride to school. So, them getting hit in their head is bad for young students, if they still need to learn. Getting hit in the head or having a broken bone at an early age is bad for the when they grow up. Broken bones sometimes don’t go back as it was, some players need to use a wheelchair because it was that bad. According to Zack Kruse, a young man named Johnny Knox about 25 in (2011), had a very bad injury. When he had his injury, he retired, and healed overtime. During his game he knew something was wrong and Knox instinctively scrambled towards the exposed football and almost simultaneously the doctors came and put him on the stretcher. Somehow his legs and arms weren’t fully working, but Knox wasn’t paralyzed and that scared him very much. (Kruse)

C.T.E is a very dangerous head trauma disease, it leads to depression, impulse – control, memory loss and dementia. More than 20 deceased N.F.L players have been found with C.T.E. According to the article “Hard Knocks” by Alan Schwarz, Thomas, a junior in University of Pennsylvania and a lineman in football – took his life to chronic traumatic encephalopathy. He started to play football when he was 9 years old. His mother says he loved to practice and to hit the players hard. The autopsy showed that his brain had early stages of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. It is scary to think about a sport and what players must suffer from. (Schwarz) The game is fun, and it is enjoyable to watch but the coach needs to have longer breaks to look at the players to see if they are good to go back to the game to win. Most coaches don’t really care about the team, and they just keep sending their best player out even if they are hurt or something is wrong. Coaches sometimes need to talk to their team individually and see if they are ok, mentally and physically. Players can also talk to their coaches about what’s going on home or just in general if they feel down or something is happening. Players over work themselves and feel drained, because they sometimes over workout for their competitor gets imitated. Some players have bad grades whether it’s them playing for school or out of school. (schwarz) A former N.F.L player Michael Oriard thinks the game can be made safer, but he doesn’t know if it can be safe enough. It can be made safer, if the players think about the other people that are playing also and stop thinking about trying to win and think about it as fun. A sport is all about having fun and not winning or losing.

In all-inclusive football is a dangerous sport whether if it is for younger or older children. Anyone can get hurt mentally and physically. Players are being found with C.T.E at the last minute and that’s really concerning. It is too many injuries for young children who still have years to grow up. Games sometimes play through the rain and snow sometimes. That’s very regarding because the players can get sick. It is scary that the games still go on and they are risking their health. So, overall football is dangerous because its kids playing football and they can get seriously hurt then they won’t be able to play in college or even make it to high school because of their injuries. Football can be made safer but not when young children is getting hurt. Parents get competitive also and that’s bad for the kids, because some kids don’t like the sport and try to get out by playing bad on purpose. As in article UPMC sports medicine there is also many sports that is dangerous but not as much as football, football players have broken bones, concussions, and sometimes knee injuries, quad, hamstrings, groin strains, hip pointers, shoulder dislocations, acromioclavicular sprains, wrist and hand injuries, and even common concussions. Therefore, football is threatening for school and out of school because injuries can happen even more if people don’t play safe. Whether it is for anybody, it is bad for children to go to the doctors for a sport that is supposed to be fun. It is never supposed to be rough and unnecessary hitting. So even though football is an important sport, it shouldn’t be played because it is too many injuries, and you can do some really bad damage to your body or health playing a sport for high school or college. Some children maybe break their legs, feet, hands, or arm and can’t play the same, so they get downgraded in their favorite sport.