Informative Essay: Should The Football Team Be Abolished?

Friday night lights a vital memory for any high school career. Weather you sat in the bleacher,played on the field or cheered on the sidelines the lights, the smells, the energy all shaped you to who you are today. The Program opens the door to countless opportunities for the student body. The notion that the football team be abolished is absurd. It does have its problems but those are minor blips to the bigger picture. Football provides an audience for band and cheerleading, creates scholarship opportunities, and it create a sense of community and school spirit. Without football dozens of other high school activities would be compromised. The marching band, playing at games and half time, would be limited to the classroom, Only performing when at band competitions. Without football a whole collection of talented musicians would not have the privilege to play for an audience every friday. Same for the cheer team, cheerleading is a performance sport much like dance or gymnastics. Without football there would not be a cheerleading team at Cypress lake. Assuming all football is abolished there would be no powder puff football, an event used to generate school spirit around homecoming.

Football gets peope rilled up, something about sweaty underaged boys fighting for a ball brings people together. The boys on the team create a family within themselves and that itself brings the community closer together. Going to a football game to meet up with friends and meet new people, or to see your friend play. It doesn't end in that cinematic moment, it continues into the hallways and to your phone. These are no longer strangers, this is your community brought together by a sport. It also raises school spirit, which in turn creates a sense of pride for your