Why College Football Should Be Banned An Article By Buzz Bissinger

There have been a bunch of arguments on why college football as a whole should be banned in colleges and universities. Buzz Bissinger writes an article called Why College Football Should be banned and gives a great argument on why it should be banned. An ESPN article also talks about the pros and cons about football at the college level, which also can be called amateur football. This argument has been going around the United States now for a while now but some authors make better arguments about this topic than others. The authors of both of these Articles make strong and valid points on this argument but is ultimately up to the fans to decide on wither football should be banned at a collegiate level. The first article, Why College Football

Right at the beginning he says, “College football is too dangerous. College football subtracts from the academic mission of a university. It’s hopelessly corrupt. There’s too much money involved. And . . . players aren’t getting a fair share of the loot” (Miller 2012). It is almost the same argument that Buzz Bissinger made about the athletes not getting paid and football being a disturbance in academics. This article also mentions head injuries just as Buzz Bissinger’s article. Ted Miller writes that the injuries that happen to the college football athletes really are not that worth it because they do not get paid. “Gladwell focused almost exclusively on head injuries suffered by players who were college students – officially amateurs – and not paid professionals . . . that football can be made safer” (Miller 2012). He also talks about if they banned football that a lot if T.V rating will go down on the weekends when college football is supposed to be on. He also mentions in the article, “Of course, then we wouldn’t be America. . . Football has to be tolerated, just like Ronald McDonald,”Whitlocked opined” (Miller 2012). The debate created a lot of tension between people but by the end of this debate thirty-seven percent of people changed their minds to the direction of banning