...The Ethics of Elite Football As the most popular sport in the United States, football is firmly ingrained in our American society. Despite football’s vast popularity, football is currently an overall detriment to our society. Serious fundamental changes need to be implemented to the structure of football in order for it to be morally improved in the future. With more research appearing each day, it is clear the neurological health of players needs to be taken more in to account. Underprivileged kids also need to start invest investing in school over football to succeed in their future and the well being of the players and public should always be put before money, especially the NFL’s. Not everyone believes football needs to be changed. Many people believe that football does not need to be changed at all. In Mark Edmundson’s, Why Football Matters, he emphasizes that football teaches invaluable character values. For example, football instills camaraderie that creates life long friendships and gives them beneficial knowledge about teamwork for the rest of their lives. Opponents also cite how football teaches you how to work hard overcome adversity, deal with failure and strive for excellence. Football inspires valuable teaching beneficial to the rest of your life. Furthermore, opponents to changing football say football gives more opportunities for underprivileged kids to be able to receive a college education or make their living through football. Moreover, opponents to change...
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...Every school year, millions of students participate in school sports. Participating in school sports has grown from an estimate 4 million students playing a sport in the early 1970's to about 7.7 million in 2011. Unfortunately school principals, athletic directors and coaches cannot guarantee that students will remain accident free while participating in any sport. In today's litigious world, schools, and staff can be subject to a lawsuit. Over the past few decades, more tort cases have been filed. A tort concerns civil wrongs and address the duty, breach and injury sustained to one individual as a result of another's conduct. The premise is that a person who is injured could be able to recover something from the person who injured him or her. Usually, in a tort case, injured parties typically seek monetary damages. In an educational setting, tort law is the prevalent area of the law that subjects educators to personal liability. There are a variety of torts, which can basically be divided into three types of torts: (1) intentional torts, the intent to do harm to a person, (2) negligent torts, no intent to do harm to a person but to fail to exercise proper care and (3) strict liability, actions that causes damages regardless if the person is not at fault or negligent. Of the three categories, intentional and negligent torts tend to be more common types of tort actions in school sports settings. However, the vast majority of tort liabilities applicable...
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...What American High School Football Teaches the Youth Cooperation to Reach a Common Goal A high school football team has players coming from different socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. The athletes are in various shapes and sizes. But, even with their differences, they must work together to win. They must put aside their personal beliefs and cooperate to attain a common goal. Adults who have played football know that working together with others can make their business or career successful. Group effort trumps individual effort at all times. People who want to succeed must learn to cooperate with each other. Struggling against Adversity American high school football helps people how to overcome adversity. A football team, and even its members, struggle against all kinds of adversity every day. During a game, a player can get knocked down and beaten for a touchdown. The manner by which he...
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...looks around and everything turns blurry and he is disoriented, but the athlete decides to play on anyways. Football’s popularity as a sport in high school brings communities together in support for the team they love. The game has always been a very physical game with large injury risk, but as the years go on the game continues to become more and more dangerous. Even with the helps of pads and the newest, safest helmets players still have an extremely high probability of sustaining a minor or serious injury. Some of these injuries can create long lasting health problems that can affect an athlete throughout the rest of their lives. Football is to dangerous of a sport for high school students, because it can cause serious injuries like concussions and also leaves many players with multiple long term health issues. Concussions are a very serious injury that many students experience while playing football. The total number of concussions throughout a season maintains a rapid increase, as it develops into a more frequent and dangerous injury. Over 9500 concussions occurred throughout the 2014 high school football season, and...
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...starting from Kindergarten and kept pushing forward to face all adversities. So just how much grit did Discovery High School’s class of 2018 have exactly? Considering the fact that we are all sitting here right now, I’d say we have enough grits to feed the entire stadium although I prefer the standard oatmeal. We are now at the end of what was once something new. None of us sitting here today began in Discovery High School, yet each and every...
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...Issue – Whether to Pay NCAA Football Student-Athletes 3 1.1 The Case For Maintaining the Current System - Not Paying NCAA Football Student-Athletes 4 1.2 The Case For Paying NCAA Football Student-Athletes 6 1.3 Conclusion 11 1.4 References 13 The Ethical Issue – Whether to Pay NCAA Football Student-Athletes Top college football programs make hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues each year, all without having to pay the people who actually play the game. Is it ethical for colleges to not pay their football stars for playing their hearts out on the field, building popular branding images for themselves and their school, and for the collective big-money earnings and prestige that often comes to their schools? Or is indirect payment to these players in the form of a free undergraduate education and college degree through an athletic scholarship sufficient enough? In the 2012 NFL season, 1,947 players played in at least one game. Of those, 62% attended college at one of the five “power conferences” in the U.S., and only one of those players did not attend college at all.[i] Donald Remy, the NCAA chief legal officer has said, “The NCAA’s rules do not force athletes who wish to be professionals to enroll in school,”[ii] yet premier NCAA schools clearly offer the best path to fulfilling these hopeful football players’ dreams. Nevertheless, despite the more opportunistic path of attending a Division I school, a NFL team ultimately drafts...
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...from high school, my work ethic would have been better. My main focus was finding a successful career in football. It seemed as if though this path was attainable for me but not until later. I was not progressing, it was a harsh feeling to go through, I also put so much writing into something I really loved only to lose the grasp of it. Though my skills were reliable and persistent, I did indeed experience...
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...signed me up for football at 8 years old, and have been in love with it ever since. From playing in the parks and recreation league, to high school football, I’ve played with generally the same team creating a group of brothers that I would have for life. At first I played just because all my friends played and I wanted to have fun, but as I got older, it became a focus in my life. After playing for 10 years, I’ve come to realize that football is a tough sport that takes endless hours of hard work and dedication. Along with being a very physical sport, a large part of football is mental. The mental part of the game teaches many valuable life lessons like how to work with a group. My coaches are basically second parents to me, as many times I thought they really didn’t like me, it turns out they just wanted to make sure I was going to grow up to be a good man with the right tools for life. Failure was the experience with the biggest...
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...shaped him from his choices to his failure. Tom Brady is known to be one of the greatest quarterbacks in the National Football League which we know as NFL. Tom Brady, however, didn’t get this way just by taking the easy road. His journey hasn’t been a walk in the park. I found out a lot of new things about this person that inspire me to never giving up. He truly has changed my life. Talk about an inspirational figure. Tom Brady is one of the greatest Quarterbacks in our time, but he is more than just a player. Tom Brady is also a son, a husband, and a lovely father. A quarterback is the leader of the offense. The quarterback leads his team on the field to score and to win games. A quote that stands out to me that Brady said is, “To often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations. (Tom Brady Quotes, n.d.) Tom Brady made choices in his life and background that would influence him to become the best. For example, Tom Brady was born on August 3, 1977 in Mateo, California. Tom Brady from his early years was a born athlete. His full name is Thomas Edward Patrick Jr. He had a background in baseball in football, but he would become big in football. Brady went to a private school named Junipero Serra High school with about 1000 students. He graduated from high school in 1955 and Brady passed the chance...
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...currently 17 years old, I was born November 11th, 1997 in Brooklyn, New York. All my life I’ve been living in Canarsie. I attend Canarsie High School the school of innovation in advertising and Media. I am currently a student athlete this is my first year playing football for my school. My love for music,...
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...Remember the Titans Organization: T.C. Williams High School Football Team (Alexandria Virginia 1971) * Organizational Environment: Consisted of the school board, the coaches, the team and the community. * Org. Structure: Due to desegregation, the structural norm of an all-white high school, coaching staff and football team, soon changed when a new head coach was appointed. * Org. Culture: In the beginning, everyone was out for their own self interests. The school board was trying to sabotage Coach Boone. Both coaches were out to make a name for themselves (Boone: Up and Coming/Yoast: Hall of Fame). The team members had their own initiatives (to get their desired positions). While white members of the community were waiting for failure, the black members longed for a figurehead. The coaches, team, and the community struggled to understand and except one another.The mentality was “This is how we do things around here”, but that was all about to change. * Org. Climate: At first everyone lacked motivation to put forth the effort of trying to work together. For example: Boone took offense & Yoast took defense. The team captains weren’t showing any leadership and the community members were extremely divided. Racism and football was the backdrop for the clash of leadership styles and personal perspectives that each man had to learn and understand from each other because they all shared one common goal, to become a winning team. * Team Building: At camp when...
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...qualities of the 50th state emerged to represent the people of Hawaii. That is the number “8,” worn by Tennessee Titans quarterback and O’ahu native, Marcus Mariota. Not only does Marcus hold the esteemed title of starting professional quarterback and athlete, but more importantly, for many, he represents a symbol of hope and great character. I believe he impacts young athletes as he consistently displays a disciplined and determined work ethic in athletics and in personal character beyond compare, something he attributes to his modest upbringing. Marcus Mariota was born and raised on the island of O’ahu. He grew up in a town called Hawaii Kai and played for the Pop Warner team, Kalani Falcons. When he reached high school, he played varsity football for Saint Louis School. Marcus led his team to win a state title. Although a great feat to lead his team to, some argue...
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...How to Hit Someone Hard in Football | Made Manual 8/30/11 8:41 AM How to Hit Someone Hard in Football By: Aric Mitchell Break Studios Contributing Writer One of the most dangerous and fun aspects of the gridiron is learning how to hit someone hard in football. Face it. You didn't get into the sport without the desire to commit a little violence. It offers a welcome burst of adrenaline that keeps your instincts sharp and your ego high. But if you want to learn how to hit someone hard in football, you will need: Aggression Knowledge of the rules Leg and shoulder pads Helmet 1. Gain awareness of your surroundings. You can't learn how to hit someone hard in football without first learning how to protect yourself. Failure to adhere to this step could result in you getting your bell rung instead of being the guy who does the ringing. Make sure you know where the ball is, because wherever it travels is where you will find the most traffic. 2. Target your prey. Easy if the ball is coming to your side. You want to take out the ball carrier. However, if you're playing defense and the play flows away from you, pick out another player, who is not going full speed. He's always out there. Teach him a lesson for not playing till the whistle, and your task of learning how to hit someone hard in football becomes much easier. 3. Go full speed. If you don't play to the whistle, you will become a victim. It always happens, and it always leads to injury. Don't be on the wrong end of this equation...
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...Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a degenerative disease, often found in American football players, can cause individuals who suffer from the disease many mental and physical disturbances. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a form of taupathy, which is a progressive degenerative disease found in people who have suffered a severe blow to the head. According to Brandon E. Gavett, a Ph. D writing a research paper on the effects of CTE,chronic traumatic encephalopathy is mainly found in professional competing in American football and it can also affect high school players who have played for a mere few years. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy was first recognized in the 1920’s as a disease that developed in boxers, but as the decades went by...
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...Concussions in Athletes Concussions in Athletes Introduction Athletes are faced with a number of health issues including injuries that could require surgery. It is also important to note that there are a number of athletes who have died while participating in sports. Sadly, most athletes do not report these problems in time albeit they are aware of the symptoms that accompany such sport-related health problems. Concussion is one such health problem that is affecting athletes, especially high school students. It has been reported that most of athletes tend to avoid reporting symptoms of concussion in order to avoid being sidelined from playing (Diagnosing and Treating Sports-Related Concussion, 2014). In the United States, it is estimated that up to 3.8 million athletes suffer from concussions linked to high impact sports (Diagnosing and Treating Sports-Related Concussion, 2014). There is, however, a feeling that the figure is under-estimated in the sense that most athletes as well as their coaches are not conversant with the symptoms of this particular health issue. Therefore, concussions in athletes are a serious health issue which should be addressed immediately. There is need to inform athletes and all stakeholders in the sport industry on the symptoms of concussions as well as their capability to be fatal in order to help athletes seek treatment to avoid repetitive concussions which would lead to deaths. The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader, especially...
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