Over the years, people have been stressing about how contact sports can lead to concussions. In football, you are more likely to get a concussion than any other sport. Concussions are bad for the brain and athletes should not actively participate in contact sports until they completely heal. Concussions can cause brain damage to the brain, like memory loss and loss of judgement. Concussions mainly occur in contact sports such as football.…
To many people, football is considered the most dangerous sport. The violent tackling nature means the possibility of broken bones or torn tendons with every play, and these injuries have always been understood as part of participating in the sport. A newer, less understood injury, however, is the concussion. 47 percent of all concussions in sports occur in football. For this reason, some parents are not allowing their children to play football because of the risk of head injuries.…
The video Big Hits, Broken Dreams revolved around Concussions and Traumatic Brain Injuries of high school football athletes. It is something that athletes are all too familiar with on a daily basis. Just one single hit could end up being more fatal than anyone would think about. Concussions are very common with those who play rigorous sports because of the constant person-to-person contact or even contact of the object they play with, like a football. One issue with this is the idea of do the risks outweigh the benefits to young people playing sports.…
Football can make you or break you, it can get you a scholar ship, or build your character, or it can leave you seriously injured or give you a concussion or even brain damage. This sport has helped some people become stars but it has also given some people serious brain injuries, especially young adolescents such as high schoolers. The info graph says 100,000 high school players are concussed per year. This can interfere with the students’ performance at school since so many students are being concussed per year it could be easy for them to get brain damage. It can also put many students in the hospital.…
Concussions In Football Soon football may become too dangerous to play. This is what I've been wondering as more and more reports of concussions and brain damage in NFL players start to circulate. This is what I've decided to research, how football effects the mind and body after and during the game. I will tell you about the effects of contact football and how it can affect the players, and current research about concussions in football players.…
High School Sports Should high schools be all about education, and grades? I couldn’t see myself getting up in the morning excited to learn trigonometry. Let alone be happy in a place like my school. My point would be that I only come to school because I find motivation in the sports that this school has to offer. I tell myself I have to turn my homework in, or I need to read this page, and study so I can pass my test to play Friday night.…
The Sports Plague Felt by All: Injuries: Growing up, I was very involved with sports, just like the many other people. As most of you already know from experience alone, playing certain sports like football, and soccer tend to result in various injuries, ranging from bruises, to nagging aches, and pulled ligaments. Occasionally you might have suffered a more severe injury like tearing ligaments, breaking bones, or becoming severely concussed from a blow to the head. Unfortunately, the latter of injuries mentioned seems to be happening more often. Now the question is, are sports becoming too dangerous, thusly resulting in a higher frequency of injuries, especially in adolescent athletes?…
Football has been America’s favorite sport for years with one of the biggest fan bases. Although many people love the sport, do they really understand how dangerous this sport can be? Just like any other sport you can get hurt just like getting a broken leg, arm, and other body parts as well. A sport such as football is one of the most physical sports played this day and with a sport so physical concussions in football became more of a question for safety. Starting in 2009 more and more players were being put out of the game because they believed they had a concussion.…
Football is one of the greatest American sports. It is a fun and rewarding game to some people. To others, it may be too time-consuming and too much effort required. Whatever it is to you there is one thing we can all agree on...football is a dangerous sport. Between head injuries and just entire body injuries it is dangerous.…
With concussions being on the rise, many parents have taken their children out of contact sports. The concussion topic has been very thoroughly discussed over every state in the United States, along with other countries all over the world. Contact sports should be played whether they are dangerous or not. In life, athletes will face many risky situations, many of those situations happening during an athletic event. While concussions are a risk in nearly all sports, the benefits from sports participation are innumerable.…
Some peoples view on dangerous things are different than others. Football can sometimes be more dangerous than other sports, but you have to deal with it, if it is something you love to do. Every sport has its downfall. But as they stated in the essay, “four out of every 1,000 high school football exposures, resulted in an injury.”…
Millions of passionate fans follow two ball sports, football and soccer. Even though these two sports are very popular and are enjoyed by many, there is numerous reasons why soccer is better, for example, football is more dangerous than soccer. More padding is required for football than for soccer. Although it is possible to come in contact with other players during soccer, there are more contact between the players during football. Both Football and Soccer carry a high risk of getting severely injured, but football is more dangerous than soccer.…
In 2007, more than 920,000 athletes under the age of 18 were treated in emergency rooms or doctor’s offices. If that doesn’t say something about the dangers of football. I’m not sure what will. II. Relating the topic to the audience: I bet most of you, if not all of you have watched or played football.…
Violent video games are bad for many kids and even bad for adults. They can influence kids to think that the stuff they 're seeing in the games is the right way to act. Violent games are made for people over the age of 17, but many adults buy the game for kids that are under the required age. Kids should not be seeing people kill people for fun. They should stay away from games like Grand theft auto or black ops.…
They can and probably will injure you very badly. They may be addicting, but is it worth the risk of even dying? There is this addiction called type T which tricks your mind into only liking extreme sports and your personality will just change and all you will care about being extreme sports and the more you play, the higher chances there will be to get injured. “ Risk-takers and adventurers who seek excitement and stimulation wherever they can find or create it are people who have type T.” Psychologist Frank Farley once said. And this shows what type T stands for.…