Analysis Of Should We Ban Football By Roger I. Abrams

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Roger I. Abrams “ Should We Ban Football?” www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-i-abrams/should-we-ban-football_b_350842.html. Accessed 2 Feb 2018. In this article by Roger I. Abrams, He talks about how the NFL, makes high school football much more dangerous and how they should ban all football playing not just high school. Also he says there is no way he could ever see high school football being banned. Because he says it means way to much to too many people so the sport will never go away. Football is a very violent sport we ignore the injures every time they happen because we are to caught up being a fan of the game. There were 10 cases this year of on the field deaths playing football. The main points covered are that football means to much to

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