Zach Gerhardt Mr. Story FSU Senior Comp 25 February 2024 The Safety of Tackle Football How would you feel if your child was punched in the head 389 times? Well, that’s a football game. This topic was brought to light by author Chris Nowinski of Is Youth Football Too Dangerous? Information and research back up both sides, but one side has a strong advantage over the other. Kids won’t stop playing tackle football soon. The research that is being done to prevent traumatic head injuries is what keeps these kids safe. The kids are not allowed to throw their bodies across the field so they hurt themselves or those they are playing against, either during new limited practices or games. These new conditions allow kids to play the sports they love …show more content…
The sport has become one of the most popular sports in the entire world with it having multiple professional leagues including the NFL, which is valued at over $150 billion. There are also college teams at multiple different levels of ability and physicality. The biggest division is D1 which has around 20,000 players that are on scholarship at the D1 universities. Despite efforts to make the game safer with the new rule changes, protective gear, and technology, parents and medical professionals continue to debate whether it is worth the risk for young athletes. This debate has been taking place for the past 10 to 15 years, and there is still no definite answer to whether football is safe. The advancements that have been made recently and the research that is being done are enough to show that football is safe and should continue to be played by kids of all ages. Just because football is regarded as one of the most dangerous sports a kid can play, it’s not as dangerous as it may seem. “Football has risks of injury just like any other sport, and with the advancements in football equipment and …show more content…
The Health Benefits of Youth Contact Sports Outweigh the Risks." Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2024. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EEAYEC052799645/OVIC?u=lom_accessmich&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=0ba42e95. Accessed 25 Feb. 2024. Originally published as "Weighing the childhood risks of contact sports," Washington Times, 29 Jan. 2015. Nowinski, Chris, and Jon Butler. “Is Youth Football Too Dangerous?” New York Times Upfront, vol. 155, No. 2 -. 9, Feb. 2023, pp. 113-122. 22–23. The syllables of the syllables. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=56d1c933-77c5-3e2f-93fc-b0bd49814adc. Youth Football Safety and Injury Prevention | NFL FLAG. nflflag.com - http://www.nflflag.com/football-safety. Zimmerman, Jonathan. The. "We Must Stop Risking the Health of Young Football Players." Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2024. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/VWETBE693994308/OVIC?u=lom_accessmich&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=7d138d61. Accessed 25 Feb. 2024. Originally published as "Football: Unsafe at any level," Los Angeles Times, 13 Sept.
In the article “Should Kids Play Football” from the Scholastic Scope on February 2015, writer Jennifer Shotz discusses both issues of the benefits and dangers of playing American football. For example, Jennifer Shots mentioned that tens of thousands of young football players get concussions every year. She states that most players return to the game after they are healed but some never return because their concussion was too severe to their health. On the other hand, the writer also discusses how football isn't the only sport that encounters concussions. The rules of football are always changing and each new rule provides a safer way to play the game. For example, the writer notes that Pop Warner has reduced the amount of practice time dedicated
Are young children putting their health and even their lives at risk if they partake in the sport of football? Some claim that the American sport is far too dangerous and the risk of concussions and injuries far outway the pros of the physical sport, while others insist that technological improvements and new regulations have made the sport safer. Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor of history and education at New York University, argues in his paper, “We Must Stop Risking the Health of Young Football Players,” that football is a sport that is too dangerous for the youth. He states his belief that technological improvements in helmets and changes in the rules of the sport have had little effect on reducing injuries and that nothing has worked.
“Concussion rates for children under the age of 19 who play football have doubled in the last decade, even though the overall sports participation has declined” (Youth Football Concussion Statistics). Football is extremely popular in American culture. Children all across the world love watching and playing the sport. However, many studies have shown numerous possible long term effects of starting the beloved sport when young. Undeveloped brains have a harder time recovering from bumps and blows that occur during playing time. After examining the long term effects of children playing football, it is clear that the tradition of tackle football in youth should be held off until the brain is more fully developed,
Children who are active recklessly engage in activities where injuries can occur. Nobody can predict when or how seriously anybody will get injured during an activity, however, the risks of children playing tackle football is prevalent where the dangers are imminent. The game of tackle football on a youth level is dangerous for children since they are developing physically and mentally. According to an article from The Atlantic, “America’s most dangerous football is in the peewee leagues, not the National Football League” (Barra, 2013). According to a journal article, “sports injuries account for approximately 23% of pediatric emergency department injury related visits” (Podberesky, Unsell & Anton, 2009). “Of these sports injury-related
Football is an extremely violent game not only in the physical part but also in the mental part of the game. Players are coach to be vicious on the field. they are taught to get mad and take their aggression out on the other player. Which can be dangerous when two or more players are trying to hurt(intentionally or not) the other player by hitting them hard. High school sports are dangerous because rese...
Some are trading the fun and experience of diversifying between basketball, baseball, soccer, etc. for year-round football. As a result, overuse injuries are occurring at an alarming rate among these one-sport wonders. For example, "Little League Elbow" describes overuse injuries in kids who are repetitively throwing the ball. Kids are sustaining severe injuries to their growth plates, neck and spinal cord that could end their career in pro-sports before it begins....
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This paper attempts to rationalize youth football as a sport by discussing the pros and cons in order to argue that youth should be allowed to play the game of football if they so choose. To do so, this paper will explore the ethical arguments and considerations of parents, young athletes, medical professionals and social media.
For example, “The N.F.L., which long denied that there was any link between the game and brain damage, has in recent years been promoting what it considers safer tackling techniques aimed at reducing head-to-head collisions” (Larned, CNN). This is important because it helps you understand the action being taken to reduce head to head contact in effort to reduce concussions in football at all ages. This shows that the more we study tackles and new techniques, the more we are able to take concussions out of football. In addition, Victoria Larned wrote, “It suggests that participants weigh potential health risks against the recreation benefits of proper tackling.” This shows that, in fact, many people are aware of the benefits gained by proper tackling technique. If kids are introduced to proper tackling techniques, the game of football becomes safer for both the tackler and the ball carrier. Teaching kids proper tackling will help reduce the amount of head and neck injuries in
One of the biggest controversial topics going on today is should children still be aloud to play football, knowing what we know about serious injuries? The article that I chose ( “Don’t Let Kids play football”) is about the consequences that could occur playing such a contact sport. The debate is that some people believe that football teaches important life lessons and others believe that it can cause serious life changing injuries.
Football is America’s favorite sport. It is a fast-paced, hard-hitting game. Every week thousands of men and boys all across the country take part in football and every week these men and boys receive violent hits during the game. Frequently, as a result of these violent hits, the player receives a concussion. However, the long-term effects of concussions on players are not fully understood. New research shows that even a slight concussion in a football game can have lasting effects on a player. As a result of this research, children under the age of fourteen should not play tackle football.
Bounteous doctors, trainers, and even N.F.L players also believe is dangerous to play. Countless of people usually won’t want to play a dangerous sport, but countless are coming up with ideas to lower the risk and cause football to be safer to play. As explained in “How dangerous is high school football?” football is the highest leading cause of sport-related injuries. Secondly, teens are more vulnerable to receiving concussions from playing football. Furthermore, N.F.L players that have had concussions has made people worry about teen football players head injuries. The copious amount will suggest football is dangerous, but there are doctors, trainers, even N.F.L
The problems and injuries that come with playing football have been obvious since the beginning, and to this day are still being discovered and researched in hopes of finding solutions so that the sport is not so dangerous. Malcolm Gla...
Player Safety Must Come Before Toughness When coaching sports, football in particular, there can be a very fine line between being a disciplinary coach and being too tough on players. This can be especially true when coaching High School athletes where many coaches who are trying to be hard on players are being accused as unfair to their players. Today there is an ethical dilemma between being a very disciplinary coach and mistreating student athletes. Player’s safety should be taken into consideration even when coaches have an extremely disciplinarian approach to coaching.
Sunday night football is now the go to entertainment for most Americans. The NFL is the only company that can say they own a day of the week. At the closing of the week Americans get in front of their giant televisions to watch players bash into each other while devouring their buffalo wings and beer. To many, they are aware the sport is intrinsically dangerous, but most do not grasp the full ramifications that colliding with another human being at twenty miles per hour can have. Football is disastrous to the physical health of all humans, but the risk is multiplied if the sport is played by the youth.