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was in seventh grade, I quit playing Rebel Football. Rebel Football was a team that offered a unique experience to play football with your friends and receive expert coaching from a former college football player. Almost every boy in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade was on this team. Being on this team was akin to a badge of honor. If you were not on the team, you were ostracized. Although I played in sixth grade and liked being with my friends, football was just not my strong suit, so I quit…

Fred McNeill’s story is a familiar one. He played football for 22 years, 12 in the NFL as a linebacker. Years after he retired, CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, symptoms started including: depression, memory loss and eventually, deterioration in motor skills and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He died at 63. Yet McNeill’s case is different than the many other NFL players linked to CTE. Up until McNeill, every player associated with CTE had the disorder diagnosed only after their…

concussions per week in the National Football League has rose from 5.4 per week in 2009, to 7.6 in 2010, and 8.4 in 2011” (Fainaru, 2012). This narrative hook would draw the reader in by presenting them with the statistic of the rate that concussions occur within the National Football League. Creswell states in his book, that one should “consider numeric information for impact” (2014, p.114). This statistic identifies the problem that concussions pose to professional football players, and the…

In John Grishams The Bleachers, Eddie Rake was king. If he wanted something to happen, it happened. Football was at the top of Rakes priorities, “football was king and that would never change” (Grisham 103). Everyone seeks Rake’s approval. He has been a very successful coach, “almost anyone on the streets of Messina could rattle off from memory—thirty-four years as Coach of the Spartans, 418 wins, 62 losses, 13 state titles, and from 1964 to 1970 an undefeated streak that ended at 84” (Grisham…

subject of brain harm endured by expert football players. By making a movie discussing the topic, Landesman managed to create a controversy about it and help people be aware of this new discovery. Sure, most people were aware that receiving so many hits per game in the head wasn't a natural thing. However, no one really understood the magnitude of this and how it could affect ones life indefinitely. Rather than a movie, Concussion is an eye opener not only for Football players but also to…

Helmets Should be Worn While Playing Soccer Here goes Kalin, she is about to head the soccer ball. BAM! She heads the ball and falls straight to the ground. Kalin has gotten a concussion. Wearing helmets should be mandatory to wear while playing soccer. Concussions could get real real bad. Who knows how bad it could get. Helmets would save about 100% of boys and girls from getting concussions while playing soccer. Wearing helmets on a soccer field should start now. First, helmets…

In an optimal world, a person’s goals would be easy to achieve and have no large obstacles in the way of getting to that goal. Unfortunately, that is not how the world tends to work. There are many obstacles that stop people from reaching the point they want in life. In a quote by Ralph Marston, he touches on this topic. Marston points out that a person has enough hindrances in the way of their goal, so one doesn’t also need their own self getting in the way and trying to stop their path to…

As I ran through the field in the final tournament of the day, with only a few pellets left in my magazine, I can feel the air of crossfire dashing by my body. I quickly sprint to the building, spot my opponent and shoot, and cover him in pellets, hes out of the game! Airsoft one of the more difficult, stratigic and fun sport that should certainly be adoped by the Olympics, and will be if people promote the sport. Although it would be an extremely hard process, competing for the glory of…

athletes that I look up to is Aaron Rodgers. He is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Rodgers has fought through many injuries, while still pushing on. Aaron's love of sports started when he was very young. As a child, he would throw around a football with his father and two brothers. His father taught him not to do things like drinking that would limit them in sports, and Rodgers took this to heart. In middle school, Rodgers played shortstop, center field, and pitcher for Raleigh Hills…

is all about the most dangerous sport due to how many injuries the sport has. What is the Most Dangerous Sport The most dangerous sport due to most injuries in the USA is basketball. Basketball has the most injuries even more than wrestling and football. Basketball is the most dangerous sport because it has a huge amount of injuries for players to have, and in basketball there are a bunch of injuries every season. Basketball has 2.56 million injuries per year. Also most of the 2.56 million…