School Sports Persuasive Speech

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Imagine, you are sitting on the cold bleachers with about one hundred other people. You are sitting and shivering frigidly in the cold with hope and nothing but pride. Football season is ending, and at your school, your football team has made it to the championships. Your school has won the championships in the last five years in a row. The current score is 30 to 33. You are in the lead. After both the teams huddles up, they line up at the line of scrimmage. Everybody is set in line and ready to start. The center, number, 45, snaps the ball to the quarterback, number 11. The the quarterback attempts to throw the ball to the wide receiver, but it did not go as planned. Number 26, on the other team, intercepts the ball and runs as fast as lighting. 26 hurdles, sprints, and cuts through every single one of the players on your team leaving them in the dust. That is it, number 26 scored. The score is now 36 to 33, your team has lost not only the championships, but their winning streak. As number 26 takes off the helmet to celebrate, you are astounded. It’s a girl! As you can tell, this is something that is not common. You don’t commonly see girls playing on boys’ sports teams. This is because not all girls have this opportunity to do this. This is not allowed in some schools or sometimes even towns. But say if number 26 was not on the team, would your team have not won? Girls should be allowed to play with boys. They should be allowed because, one reason is not every sport has a