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Theme Of Aggression In Sports

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Although there are many positive aspects to sports participation, as a player or a spectator, but in today 's world of sports there are constant themes of aggression and violence in every athletic event, such as Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, and most of all Football which should be contained to a certain limit. Aggression in sports can be shown in many different ways. In baseball aggression can be throwing a pitch inside to a player or sliding into second base and taking the second baseman out. In basketball it can be a hard foul or setting a pick that blind sides a player. In soccer it can be a hard slide tackle possibly resulting in broken bone. Especially in Football it can be something like tackling a player down to the ground resulting …show more content…

It seems like we cannot watch a sport without aggression, fight or conflict that often occur during a sporting event between a couple of players or teams. In last three years the MLB, college football, NFL and the NBA have had some of their worst cases of violence. Is it because players are getting paid more and more money? According to “The Daily Cardinal Article,” the average salary of an NFL player is $1.9 million, while players are usually only getting fined a few tens of thousands of dollars for bringing brain damage to another human …show more content…

The league simply can’t deny the brutality of the sport and how it’s impacting football players. Moreover, the people who watch sports shouldn’t celebrate when a player get tackled. For example, According to the SBNation Website, Chicago Bears Jay Cutler got rocked by Houston Texan Tim Dobbins, knocking Jay out of the game and into a hospital bed. This truly suggest that aggression plays a big role in sports.

I am personally involved in multiple sports such as basketball, soccer, and baseball. I believe aggression should be limited to a point where it is exciting for the crowd and gets the players pumped up, not to the extent which is causing players getting brutally hurt. I strongly believe that this sort of disturbing violent behavior should be stopped. The league needs to start making the players miss out on their sports cars and mansions. Fines need to begin to take the same toll on professional athletes that they would on blue or white-collar criminals if the league truly values the safety of its

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