Any competitor looks for an advantage in what they do, because they want to win. For football players, they use their helmets to tackle or run over other players. They tuck their chin into their chest and ram into defenseless players. In the midst of a quarterback throwing a ball and a receiver catching a ball will be classified as a defenseless player. Defenseless players have no way of protecting themselves and attacking opposing players take advantage of it. Eddie Canales, father of a high school football player, recalls what improper form tackling can do. His son, Chris, was making what seemed to have been a great play but instead was something serious. Eddie claims, “It looked like a great tackle, but if you slow it down enough, you saw at the very last minute, he dropped his chin” (“Keeping young players safe on the football field”). Chris had suffered a spinal cord injury that impacted him from that moment on. This is only one example of what poor tackling technique does in football. Coaches need to be held accountable to instruct their players the proper tackling technique. It only takes one hit to change someone’s
Any competitor looks for an advantage in what they do, because they want to win. For football players, they use their helmets to tackle or run over other players. They tuck their chin into their chest and ram into defenseless players. In the midst of a quarterback throwing a ball and a receiver catching a ball will be classified as a defenseless player. Defenseless players have no way of protecting themselves and attacking opposing players take advantage of it. Eddie Canales, father of a high school football player, recalls what improper form tackling can do. His son, Chris, was making what seemed to have been a great play but instead was something serious. Eddie claims, “It looked like a great tackle, but if you slow it down enough, you saw at the very last minute, he dropped his chin” (“Keeping young players safe on the football field”). Chris had suffered a spinal cord injury that impacted him from that moment on. This is only one example of what poor tackling technique does in football. Coaches need to be held accountable to instruct their players the proper tackling technique. It only takes one hit to change someone’s