Pigskin Accidents

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Bottom of the fourth quarter with less than one minute left in the game. You look both left and right down the field, with shining lights above your head. “Read…Set…Hike!” Next thing you know you flat on your back and the world is spinning around you and blackout knowing the last thing you see is a helmet of the opposing team. Is the game of football to dangerous for high school, or even those in the collage? Its to my understanding that we as Americans support the football league and personally enjoy the acts of throwing the “Pigskin.” Yet I believe that football should be removed from the school system for the factors of concussions, injures, and the over welling statistics for the accidents held both practice and games. From the short

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