Charles Camosy's Rhetorical Analysis Of Why Americans Should Stop Watching Football '

In the beginning of Charles Camosy’s somewhat biased article “Why Americans Should Stop Watching Football,” he stresses why we need to give up America’s most famous and most loved sport: football. He has us think of the movie “Concussion,” starring Will Smith. This controversial movie is about how football causes serious brain damage to the players. Camosy says this very movie is given an overall rating of sixth place. He attempts to persuade others’ feelings by using the rhetorical appeal of pathos. He does this by using quotations from football players and how football ruins their life and gives them suicidal thoughts. One player even goes as far as saying that he doesn’t remember the growing up of his daughter. Camosy mentions the “ostrich approach.” When …show more content…
The “Ostrich Approach” refers to how Americans know the dangers of football; however, we choose to ignore it and bury our heads in the dirt. I, for one, participate in the burying of my head. Yes, I know football isn’t the safest sport and people get hurt daily, but that doesn’t mean anything. “But it is precisely this aspect of the game that is so morally problematic. As long as we continue to support a game deeply connected to violence, each of us is implicated in the terrible toll this is taking on football players in their retirement” (Camosy). Kids grow up having dreams of being all kinds of things: firefighter, astronaut, president, and even NFL player. Being someone who doesn’t give up on her dreams, I doubt an aspiring football player would either. The money is there, the fame is there, and the fans are there as well. If