Football Frenzy Friday


Football Frenzy Friday
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We are all familiar with the very well known movie, Concussion, and how it highlights the idea of football being a very dangerous sport. There’s talk about the long-term brain damage that many professional football players experience, all from hard hits to the head and concussions. But there’s a point where some of the data collected to prove this research becomes invalid and not credible. An absurd amount of the data comes from players who played a long time ago. Ways of tackling, along with the equipment itself, have all been improved since then. I myself am a football player, and do not like that with all of this “concussion” talk, comes a big decrease in the youth playing football. I have gone around to talk to my fellow teammates in this school to get their takes on this issue of people staying away from football.


Work Cited: 
- "The Impact Of 'Concussion': High School Football Player Changes Course." Weekend Edition Saturday, 27 Feb. 2016. Student Resources In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A445465295/SUIC?u=bens3507&sid=SUIC&xid=ab393bef. Accessed 7 Nov. 2018.
- Maske, Mark. "NFL finds no violation of concussion protocol in Cam Newton case." Washingtonpost.com, 24 Jan. 2018. Student Resources In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A524722661/SUIC?u=bens3507&sid=SUIC&xid=53484bc2. Accessed 8 Nov. 2018.
- "Concussions and Football." Gale Student Resources in Context, Gale, 2016. Student Resources In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/DKBGTO709848036/SUIC?u=bens3507&sid=SUIC&xid=b4de87b3. Accessed 9 Nov. 2018.
- Dupzyk, Kevin. "The saviors of football." Popular Mechanics, Sept. 2014, p. 11+. Student Resources In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A379638942/SUIC?u=bens3507&sid=SUIC&xid=1ddfe39a. Accessed 9 Nov. 2018.

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  1. AnonymousDecember 10, 2018 at 9:49 AM

    I really enjoyed your page the pictures fit very well with your topic and your pitch was very informative on what your podcast was about! It shows how important this topic was for you.

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