The Bad side

American Football? Isn’t american football fun, thrilling, gets the heart pumped up? This is true for players of all ages Many sport leagues or in other words, adults sports, are a very big influence on teenagers. Before they can become professionals, though teens sports are how many league player are made, the passion of the sport. Most people believe that playing team teen sports are a good thing. They keep teens healthy and keeps them focused on a positive target or goal, however, there is a dangerous side to team sports.

American Football is known for having a lot of physical contact. Most of the time, this can lead to big injuries and causing teens to lose their good physical shape and also get a bad mindset. Having a bad mindset can make things more competitive, reasons cause in the game the football player are going to be more aggressive on the field. Having a mood like this, is changing the behavior of the player, which includes the mindset, and physical contact. According to the an article aboutHuman Kinetics published by (name website), it will describe the behavior not just in the field but outside of it. Some of the main common sense of American football player for teenagers is that they're so accustomed to using physical intimidation and violence, reasons of the sports which reverses the behavior when facing conflicts outside of the sport. For example, athletes that allow their emotions be guided by their sport are most likely to lose control if their manhood is being challenged is some way.

Football is a very strong game/sport. The training is strong because the teenager has to do a lot of upper body workouts, meaning deadlifts a lot of squats and also includes a lot of running which track is involve. After training hard and trying to improve the teenages skills, the game is very different. Training and the game are two different thing, the side effects of playing very rough can change the outcome of the health. According to an article published on Grantland.com, “if the sport of football ever dies it will die from outside in”.Although the years, several studies suggest that up to 15 percent of football players suffer a mild traumatic brain injury during the season. Including for teens the center of Disease Control and Prevention eliminates the nearly 2 million brain injured or suffered by teenage players every year In fact,  the probabilities of a team player getting a concussion while playing a high school football game is 3 times higher than the second most dangerous sport, which  is girls soccer games. Even though knowing that this is healthy sport and for the teenager, in the same way that it is also dangerous.

Now behavior is a very important thing in the sport. There are many reasons why behavior is an important thing. The very first reason why it's important it's because of sportsmanship and so that the team to look good in front of other people. Mean by other people is for example the coach, the school's  resume for college and other people that look for teenagers in high school to get a scholarship, mean, and so on and so fore. According to the article, LiveScience.com, “Besides the highly publicized stories, there are thousands more across the nation involving amateur athletes taking risks both on and off the field. From performance-enhancing supplements to referee/official abuse to fights, guns and recorded crimes, the image of sports as a positive influence on athletes may need a second look.” From within this quote, many people, meaning teens relate to their NFL players. Many people intend to change their behavior to follow the NFL players and be inspired by them and they do many things to look like them too. By using the data from National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

More than 60,000 male students from across 120 schools were included within activities, risk behavior, and at home influence, which lead into most likely violence of field and specifically fighting.

In conclusion, every sport has their good side every sport is healthy every sport has a good benefit. The NFL can become one of the greatest and be a great influence for the next generation. The life of other teenagers depend on NFL, they are what makes teenagers who they are. Sometimes when the teenager receive their training and gain skills, sometimes the football player tend to push themselves harder and try to be more aggressive on winning because losing isn’t an option.

Comments (1)

Kevin Bowser (Student 2017)
Kevin Bowser

From my interpretation, your assertion is that sports can be detrimental to the mental and physical health of young athletes. I like the angle you chose for the 2fer, however you shifted from talking specially about males to females and then back to males. I think that you need to specify, in your thesis statement, what sex you want to focus on or if you want both.