Persuasive Essay: Football Should Be Eliminated From Schools

BIOL 1010

Debate Reflection #3: Football should be eliminated from schools

Bat-Orgil Batsaikhan

Football is one of the popular sport in United States in schools, and people enjoy watching football games as an entertainment. Not only as a sport, foot also brings students closer through sports. However, it is known to lead to concussions and catastrophic injuries. However, regardless of the injuries and downsides, I think that the football is a beneficial sport where we can provide more safeties and completely eliminating it is unnecessary dramatic action.

It is important to point out that football was not the only sport to be leading to concussions and catastrophic injuries. Other sports that involves a lot of contact such as wrestling and

boxing are known to be leading to injuries approximately same as football. If we were to eliminate football mainly because of its great risk of injuries, we will need to ask whether we should eliminate wrestling and boxing too. Even though injuries can be very dramatic and it might ruin players lives, we should consider how other sports affect people too.

We might be able to reduce the risks greatly by teaching proper techniques in high schools. The students should be knowing the risks of this sport and should be able to get involved in football using proper techniques. Even though we can't quantitatively tell how much we can improve the safety through teaching the proper techniques, it is definitely one of the biggest things we can do to greatly reduce risk. Some might say, even with teaching techniques, there will still be a risk of injuries. However, it is very difficult to any type of injuries, and all we can do is to reduce the risk.

In my opinion, compared to other sports, football is a sport that involves slightly more risks than other sports. However, with appropriate actions, we can make it more safer so that we don't have to eliminate it from school. In addition, football brings people more excitements, and eliminating football will certainly bring some people down, including football players themselves and audiences.