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Youth Football Persuasive Speech

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Colby Olson Mrs Geffre Speech Class April 11th, 2023 I love football, One of my favorite memories I will ever have is getting to play junior high football from my 6th through 8th grade years.. I was so mad that I had to wait until 6th grade to get to play real football. Some of my greatest memories I have made have been on a football field and I will never forget them. Sadly though, In this day and age, football gets a bad wrap, And I am here to show you why youth football shouldn’t be banned but rather be embraced. In my opinion there are dozens of reasons on why youth football is great but today I am going to be talking about three of them and really deep diving into all three of them. 1.) Youth football teaches good technique so you can …show more content…

Tackling form is by far one of the most important parts of the game of football. Most injuries in football occur from improper tackling form. That is one of the many reasons why youth football is so important. Because in my opinion if you are truly worried about the injuries in football, Then removing youth football is the most foolish thing you can do. It would be banning all training wheels from bicycles or not building a proper foundation on a house. You need the right building blocks to help better yourself from …show more content…

One of the biggest issues today in football is brain injuries. We all know about concussions, but there is another type of injury, one that happens long term called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE. CTE occours after having several traumatic brain injuries, like concussions. The life span of a person who is affected with CTE is only about fifty-one years. However they are doing extensive research on how to better football helmets to reduce brain injuries. The newest football helmet on the market is the riddell axiom. It is designed not repell what is hitting it, but to absorb it. Keeping your brain from not moving as much in your skull. They are also making rule changes to protect football players aswell. They are changing rules on kickoffs in the nfl to where you do not get a run up on kickoffs. So that there are not as many big collisions which can cause injuries. You can also get ejected out of a game for targeting in college. Targeting is when you purposely lower your head or shoulder another players helmets which is a leading cause of concussions in football. So if you threaten to eject someone for that then they will shy away from doing

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Because of all of the hits to the head, thousands of athletes experience brain damage, sometimes resulting in death. Over the past few years, the NFL and partnering organizations have taken steps to protect these athletes, but there is a limit to how much technology can do. Humans were simply not designed to take a beating as is given in tackle football. With its new concussion protocol rules, the NFL claims to have found a temporary solution to the problem, but new findings show that concussions are not the main problem. Most of the damage is done in the ordinary contact that occurs hundreds of times every game.

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Tackling in Youth Football Should be Banned Imagine a nine year old boy who loves laughing. He is energetic, and it seems like he is always doing something. He is getting ready for the big football game later one afternoon. He has been waiting for this day for two weeks; it is finally here.

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