Ethos Pathos In Football

What is the safest way to hit someone with a bone crushing tackle? The National Football League (NFL) is trying to protect its players from getting smashed. Two weeks into the 2015 season 15 percent of all NFL players were dealing with some sort of injury. That is quite the amount of players to be hurt by just week two in a season. The NFL is wanting to make the safe, “but ‘safe football’ is a mincing of words (Jackson, 2016, pg. 1).” That was said by Nate Jackson from the New York Times. Jackson wants to change the NFL’s play clock from the current 40 seconds, and shorten it to a whopping 25 seconds. The author uses ethos, pathos, logos to show why the NFL’s 40 second play clock needs to be changed to 25 seconds if it wants to continue to

Nathan Ross “Nate” Jackson, went to Menlo College in California, it is a small school with about 750 students. Nate was on their football team from 1999-2001 and was the star of the team. He went undrafted to the San Francisco 49ers in 2002. Then was traded to the Denver Broncos and was on their team from 2003-2008 (six seasons). He was not a high caliber player, but he was on the first team, so he got to experience what the NFL was really like. Nate, is also the author of “Slow Getting Up: A Story of N.F.L. Survival from the Bottom of the Pile.” This book is all about the NFL experience, and what it is like to survive in the NFL. So, when it comes to his credibility, Nate knows firsthand what it feels like to be on the bottom on the pile, and what it is like getting hit while in midair attempting to catch the

Nate uses many rhetorical questions that evoke emotions in the reader. Nate starts of the article with a rhetorical question in the second sentence that says, “How can they avoid brain injury while still getting run over by the gravy train (Jackson, 1)?” Nate also uses similes throughout his article, but this one in particular has a lot of emotion in it. “Blaming the NFL football player for a hit is like blaming a bullet for a homicide (Jackson, 1).” Jackson, really gets to his reader’s emotion with this sentence that talks about the player’s health: “The threat that concussions pose to football is really a threat to its promoters. The game will live on despite them, and will morph to meet the sensibilities of an ever-changing national conscience (Jackson, 3).” Jackson also makes another great point with the last two sentences of the article: “We are making a generation of tough boys; it is true. But what good is toughness without brains (Jackson,