Football Persuasive Speech
You’re 6 years old, and your parents just started you in peewee football. You’re excited, it’s the first year for you and all of your friends are on the team; you can’t wait for it to begin. You’re now 12 years old, you are the starting quarterback for the youth football team. You´ve already had three mild concussions but football has become your life, everything you do revolves around it so there is no quitting now. Six years later and you’re 18, it is your senior year. Every ones eyes are on you; homecoming game 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter down by six and all you have to do is win it for your team. Scouts are watching to recruit you for college, no mistakes. You can hear the clock running down, your heart is racing as the play begins,
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Most people will say that contact sports are safe because they require helmets and pads all over the body. But in reality the helmets and pads you wear in the sport only protect so much. From recent research, it is said that on average “high school football players suffered 11.2 concussions for every 10,000 games and practices” (Jason M. Breslow). Although, this amount is underrated due to the problem of kids not reporting their head injuries to coaches or parents.
Another reason kids should start contact sports later in life is because the most important stages of brain development happen within the ages of 10 to 12 years of age. In a recent study from Boston University School of Medicine ¨42 former NFL players between the ages of 40 and 69 and found that those who began playing football before age 12 ´demonstrated significantly greater impairment´ than the players who did not start playing until after that age¨ (Waldron). Even though most kids will not make it to the NFL they still pose for the same risks of brain impairment from starting the sport to
Most people will say that contact sports are safe because they require helmets and pads all over the body. But in reality the helmets and pads you wear in the sport only protect so much. From recent research, it is said that on average “high school football players suffered 11.2 concussions for every 10,000 games and practices” (Jason M. Breslow). Although, this amount is underrated due to the problem of kids not reporting their head injuries to coaches or parents.
Another reason kids should start contact sports later in life is because the most important stages of brain development happen within the ages of 10 to 12 years of age. In a recent study from Boston University School of Medicine ¨42 former NFL players between the ages of 40 and 69 and found that those who began playing football before age 12 ´demonstrated significantly greater impairment´ than the players who did not start playing until after that age¨ (Waldron). Even though most kids will not make it to the NFL they still pose for the same risks of brain impairment from starting the sport to