Man Up By Brian Phillips Summary

The argument that Brian Philips’s presents in his personal article, “Man Up” is about the NFL players. The NFL is an American sport which consists of only men on the teams. this sport is considered “a man’s sport”. The NFL is teaching their players to be rugged, aggressive, and to be more violent against other players on the field. The team mates are the ones who teach the other players on the team to withhold their issues that they may be having inside, rather than seeking help for these issues. The reason for this being is because men get told to “be a man” about their feelings by their peers which then creates the problem of the men hiding their emotions.
Brian Philips’s argument is about how in the NFL, you need to be a man and in order to be a real man, you will need to have all the qualities of being well built. Philips says in this article “playing football is a man’s job” of “High “testosterone”. Lots of people say that you …show more content…
They can show no signs of weakness otherwise the other player’s will make fun of them. It isn’t in their nature to do that kind of thing until it is too late and they have a nervous breakdown or they hurt someone else. These things do not just happen in football, they happen with lots of men everywhere. Most men do not want to admit that they have a problem or something is wrong with them. If there is a problem with another team member “You handle it in house-- fight” or “joke about it”. There is so much a team jokes around with when they are together. The NFL has probably the highest rate of suicide that goes along with the game of football. He talks about Former Chargers DB Paul Oliver; who killed himself in September, eight months later another four players committed suicide, including Titian receiver O.J. Murdock, Chargers Junior Seau, Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher. He only briefly talks about the mental health issues that are going on in the men’s