Kids love to play football and many people love to watch it, but many parents have decided to stop signing their kids up. Parents have become frightened away by injuries and are forgetting the benefits of their children playing football. Kids who play football have been proven not only be in shape, but also have proven to do better in school.
All parents want their kids to do well in school and football can help with that. Football improves school performances and teaches kids lessons. Kim Gorgens, a clinical associate professor in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of Denver stated that, “Organized sports are a learning lab for life.” Kids are taught in football to try their best and to listen to instruction. A study[1] of 2,000 California children showed that twelve-year-olds who take longer than twelve minutes to run a mile have lower standardized test scores. Another study done by the U.S. government …show more content…
The average cornerback and receiver can run over a mile in one game. This may not seem impressive because the game last sixty minutes and a player could walk a mile in that time, but players usually are only playing for eleven minutes during a game. An article by Lenny Bernstein, a writer from The Washington Post, asked Jeff Potteiger, dean of Graduate Studies and a faculty member in Movement Science at Grand Valley State University, which athletes are the most fit? After going through the many different ways to determine who is fit and who is not, he came to the conclusion stating that, “You’d probably end up with someone who looks like Bo Jackson or Jim Thorpe, or maybe Deion Sanders . . . I think Deion Sanders was one of the top all-around athletes.” Every single one of those players was a well known football star in their day. While the players also did other professional sports such as baseball and basketball, their football training allowed them to become as fit as
All parents want their kids to do well in school and football can help with that. Football improves school performances and teaches kids lessons. Kim Gorgens, a clinical associate professor in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of Denver stated that, “Organized sports are a learning lab for life.” Kids are taught in football to try their best and to listen to instruction. A study[1] of 2,000 California children showed that twelve-year-olds who take longer than twelve minutes to run a mile have lower standardized test scores. Another study done by the U.S. government …show more content…
The average cornerback and receiver can run over a mile in one game. This may not seem impressive because the game last sixty minutes and a player could walk a mile in that time, but players usually are only playing for eleven minutes during a game. An article by Lenny Bernstein, a writer from The Washington Post, asked Jeff Potteiger, dean of Graduate Studies and a faculty member in Movement Science at Grand Valley State University, which athletes are the most fit? After going through the many different ways to determine who is fit and who is not, he came to the conclusion stating that, “You’d probably end up with someone who looks like Bo Jackson or Jim Thorpe, or maybe Deion Sanders . . . I think Deion Sanders was one of the top all-around athletes.” Every single one of those players was a well known football star in their day. While the players also did other professional sports such as baseball and basketball, their football training allowed them to become as fit as