1. Why Put Your Son In Danger?

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Why put your son in danger?? Why let him suffer some consequences that are going to affect him?? There has been a lot of accidents such as suicide, brain tumor, and other several issues. I wouldn’t allow my son to play football because you never know what could happen to him. They might suffer several brain injuries that might affect him for the rest of their life. As Chicago tribune published “ Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez hangs himself in prison”, which explains how a football player has everything and does something he shouldn’t have done. Also to end it all by a mistake, to be someone big in life and to have little kid look after you then turns out that person became a murderer. He had made about seven touchdowns in two years that

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