Persuasive Essay Abolish All Professional Sports

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We often find ourselves watching professional sports on the television. Such as the Super Bowl for the NFL, or the World Series for MLB, but what if we removed those sports. I say that we completely abolish all professional sports in America. I’m sick and tired of all the entrails that they leave behind. Riots are started because of them. Fights break out and people get hurt. People are kicked out of stadiums for good. And for some reason people think that they need to streak across the field every once in awhile. This madness needs to be put to an abrupt end.
Football fans across America go crazy every year for the Super Bowl. Where two opposing NFL teams come together to fight to death in an all out battle for six points every time they
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There is so much tactic and so much common sense that is needed to play, even understand this game that it just shouldn’t be worth anyone’s time. Coaches have to remember signs to give his players. And they have to know how the game works, and which players go where and can do what. Yes they say that as soon as one game ends you forget it and move on to the next. But the coach never forgets. He knows the details, the dirt, the grime of the game. Of every game. He puts his players out there and expects them to risk their bodies to catch a pearly white sphere with red laces around it. It’s ridiculous! If I see a baseball player get hurt, I laugh. He doesn’t need to jump into the back wall just to catch a fly ball, just let it bounce off. The catcher doesn’t need to block the ball, just let it go by and pick it up when it bounces back. Fielders don’t need to dive into the stands just to grab a foul ball. It’s foul! Who cares about it, if it’s foul? Guys put their bodies out there just to snag a ball they could buy at the store. The pitcher stands right in front of the guy who could hit it right back at him. If I were the pitcher; I’d throw it and then get the hell out of there! I wouldn’t stand there one second longer than I had to. These guys risk themselves for almost nothing, it’s ridiculous, there is no

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