Football Before High School Research Paper

Should we really take America’s favorite sport away from children before high school? Nowadays, football is really safe. We have re-invented the football helmets many times. Also, as middle schoolers are going into high school football, they are going to get hit harder and with more impact, so they should train now. Children should be allowed to play tackle football before high school because as kids get older, they hit harder, tackle football allows kids to behave and have fun, and tackle football is safer than it has ever been. As kids get older, they are going to hit harder. In high school, kids are way stronger than someone who is in middle school. They are bigger, faster, and stronger. Dr. Julian Bailes, a neurologist from CNN, says, “The real exposure is to larger players, with higher velocity hits, and hundreds of hits.” (Kounang, pg. 1) Timothy Gay, another neurologist from NPR, a medical website, says, “But tough rowdy NFL lineman have been taking down unsuspecting quarterbacks for almost a century. Have hits really gotten harder - and more dangerous - in recent years?” (Adam, pg. 1) Tackle football allows kids to behave and have fun at the same time. Children are known for fooling …show more content…
I disagree with this view that tackle football is bad for children, because as recent research has shown, tackle football is safer than ever. Football now is really safe, and the NFL has done everything they can in order to make football a safer sport. They have now made head to head contact a yard penalty, and they are reducing the amount of time spent hitting in practice. We, as a country, have also re-invented the football helmet countless times to make it safer. Carol Glines from Fox News talks about the new football helmets. They say, “ . . . But now there’s a new helmet that’s been designed to protect not only the skull, but what’s inside of it.” (Glines, pg.