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Football has become very popular over the past years. People are starting their kids to play at the young age of five. It is some people’s main priority to watch on a Saturday and Sunday, and the “Friday night lights” are a very popular thing in high schools all around the country. Some people think the popularity of football is getting out of hand in schools. They are worried it is taking away from the educational aspect of school. One person who thinks strongly about this is Steven Salzberg. Salzberg is a student at University of Maryland. He wrote an article called Get Football Out Of Our Universities. In this article, Salzberg talks about how football should be taken out of colleges. His reasoning is because, football players who get a …show more content…

Pathos is a tool used to convince people with an argument that will have an emotional response. To use pathos in his argument he needed something that would spark an anger, fear, or happiness. This whole article is going to create an emotion for the reader. The first glace of pathos being used in this article is right in the first paragraph. The author says, “If we keep it up, the U.S. will eventually be little more than the big, dumb jock on the world stage—good for entertainment on the weekend, but not taken seriously otherwise” (Salzberg 1). That sentence could really rub a person the wrong way. By saying the term “ big, dumb jock”, could really be offensive to someone who dedicates his or her life to football. That would create a great amount of anger, which is what the author wants so he/she will keep reading. Down the paragraph, he says, ‘‘The culture of football worship has gotten so out of control that I think the only solution is to get rid of it entirely” (Salzberg 2). This statement is very opinionated. Some people only go to college because they got a scholarship for football. At least they are getting some sort of education rather than none at all. Many people think it has not gotten out of hand, and just adds joy to the college experience. If an author did not use pathos to help persuade an argument, then the reader would not have the emotion to feel strong about the

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