Call me old fashioned, but I don't think football should be as intense as it is. I know it's the second biggest sport in America next to Baseball, but come on people! It's bad enough that we have grown men having horrible problems from the sport, but now young teenage boys are getting hurt and even dying! Okay, can we all just take a step back for a second and actually think about that? Teenage boys, kids, are d y i n g. Their lives are being lost because grown ups can't get it through their thick skulls that they are just kids and should be treated that way. A college scholarship means nothing to a kid with permanent brain damage or a boy who's lost his life.
In the video we watch, two teen boys were hospitalized due to heat stroke because their coaches wouldn't cancel practice when it was way to hot to be outside. One of the coaches even said that they won't cancel because of the heat. They still have to have practice. No, I'm sorry, you don't have to do anything. No one is making you practice that much and I know for a fact none of those kid's parents want them out there when their lives are in danger. The video talked about how high school football is more intense than college football and even gets national coverage. College level football is where NFL players get picked from. How in the hell is this more intense than basically try outs for the professional sport? That literally blows my mind.
When I was in high school, we never took football that seriously. Ever. Sure, the coach would get a little intense and yell at the players, but my school's team was never pushed so hard that their health was in danger. I'm not sure if it was because we were a smaller school and never would have really gotten any coverage, or if it was the fact that the coach understood the dangers and never wanted to win bad enough to put boys in danger. I can say one thing, I'm damn glad I never had to experience a fellow classmate being hospitalized for a sport.
I know something needs to be done about this, in fact a lot of people know this, but the truth is not enough people want to do anything about it. All they do is set rules and guidelines and hope those work, or even give advice, but that still doesn't do much. Young men and children are having serious brain injuries and trauma which can lead to horrible diseases like dementia and even suicide. That is just not right. There is no reason for that and it really makes me sad. I hope I can help improve this problem in some way. That'll be a life goal of mine now, for sure.
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