The Impact That Playing College Football Make On Students

An article titled “It’s Time to End Football in High School” by Randall Curren and Jason Blokhuis concerns the hazardous impact of tackle football in its relation with high school students’ education as a justification to end football in high school. Authors Randall Curren and Jason Blokhuis discuss brain injuries, character development, and professional career in football. It is probably right that such dangers are enough reasons to quit football. Nonetheless, what the authors had stated in the article is not true and only encourage the educators, school officials, also students to halt football with their biased arguments and facts that only showed a bunch of negative impacts on football.

According to the authors Curren and Blokhuis, traumatic brain injuries and cognitive impairment which occur in tackle football channels to failure in terms of many high school students’ education. “According to our analysis, the cumulative effect of rattling this many brains this many times is that each year roughly 264,000 high school students suffer traumatic brain injury and cognitive impairment that diminishes their ability to think, learn, and succeed in school.” Presumably, such activities related to football should immediately lessen because the impact is irrelevant for educational aims, but the real reason why these brain injuries and cognitive impairment ever occurred is that the school never really neither supporting nor sponsoring the football activity itself. In the NFL, the regulations on the field always evolve to eliminating potentially risky behavior, and the helmets always go through laboratory testing each year by the biomechanical engineers selected by the NFL and the NFL Player Association assess which helmets best reduce harsh bump to the head to keep players from any sequence of serious injuries. The school should majorly concern both its rules and its equipment, especially helmet development to keep the students from foreseeable perilous brain injuries and cognitive impairment as the dangers mentioned by the authors.

Later in the article, authors Curren and Blokhuis state that football doesn’t contribute to character development. “Many claim that playing football builds character, but there is no evidence that it is distinctive or cost-effective in this respect.” If one ever worries about football doesn’t contribute to developing a character, one should take a peek or even participates in the leagues and its program. Football donates a great contribution to character development and leadership for anyone involved, which requires passion, determination, sacrifice, and dedication. The NFL endeavors to nourish immortalize interest in the game, inspiring respect for the foundational values of the game, involving teamwork, commitment, and leadership that signifies football as an agent for more prominent personal development at every level of play. Among every route, pass, run, rush, and play action need high-level teamwork which includes high-level coordination and communication skill to flawlessly execute each play to bring the ball into the end zone. Football brings an enormous influence on character development either inside or outside the field. These skills are remarkably helpful, especially in the world of professional jobs outside the field where it is pretty much needed the ability to work together in a team, coordination, communication, and leadership.

Last, authors Curren and Blokhuis explain that the possibility for high school students to be professional football players is pretty tiny. “According to NCAA estimates, only 6.9 percent of high school football players made it onto an NCAA team in the 2016-17 season.” Nevertheless, this evidence is not adequate for justification to end football in high school in terms of many professional football players nowadays who have been playing football since high school or even before it. If high school students ever had a dream of becoming professional NFL players, they should have still played in their high school football team regardless of the injuries they might undergo. They should be the ablest prospect among others both inside and outside of their school as they will be more likely to get a scholarship to play football in a college football team with the recent best reputation in NCAA tournament playoff. According to CBS Sports, the top three are Ohio State, LSU, and Alabama. By playing in a college football team with the best reputation in NCAA across the country, there would be a vaster possibility for them to get the first pick in the NFL draft and be a pro-NFL player.

It’s undoubtedly that tackle football naturally possesses some risks of brain injury symptoms. Due to that very statement, the responsibility of research and innovation to developing safer regulations and equipment to fading the risks fundamentally pass down to the school officials. Football has a remarkable role in one's character development, not only for those who aim to be NFL athletes but also for anyone who just participates in it. Students who seek the dream to be pro-NFL players shouldn't cease playing in their high school football team. Quite briefly, if we want the industry of football to keep going, we shouldn't end football in college as college is the prime miniature of the football industry that carries out these youngsters' dreams and hopes.

References

• NFL Football Operations. (n.d.). Health & Safety. 
• NFL Football Operations. (n.d.). Getting Into the Game.
• CBS Sports. (2019). College Football Rankings.