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Re: “Abolish high school football!” written by Raymond A. Schroth

Football is the sport with a innumerable of injuries and deaths. I can agree with the writer about how at least 1 teenager that plays football for high school gets a concussion. I can also start that at least one football player has been injured. Every year, every day, every hour, every minute, and every second during the football season at high schools there’s an injured player or a player who perhaps died on the field because of a concussion or his head was hit really hard. Wearing a helmet during the game isn’t enough to protect you from getting injured. What I can disagree is football should be allowed if only they play flag football, where less injuries

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