Silent Conversation and Personality Profile First Draft
Goals and agenda for today:
- Gabby B Opening Moment
- Silent Conversation:
- follow this link to a New York Times article on the dangers of young people playing football: . http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/sports/football/would-i-let-my-son-play-football.html.
- Post a comment to this post that does one of the following:
- agrees/disagrees with something that is being said in the article (reference at least one passage)
- makes a personal connection to your life and experiences (reference at least one passage)
- References the comments of another person- builds off of them, challenges them, agrees with them, etc.
- Personality Profile reflection
- Second personality profile assigned: select a person with a career you are interested in and make a time to meet and interview.
- Reading time
I really feel like the whole essay is true. Football is a dangerous sport but if someone loves the sport and wants to do it, I think they should be allowed to. The part where he said his parents went to a meeting and still said no and he cried. That showed how much he wanted to play. If he hadn't been emotional that he couldn't play he wouldn't have gotten to where he is to this day. Football isn't the only dangerous sport though. All sports can have injuries, cheering, running, lacrosse, soccer. Not just football we should be worried about. We should be worried but open to every sport there is out there.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the author. Especially at the end. It's the parents decision as to if or when their child plays football.
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ReplyDeletePersonally I think that you can't just make kids stop playing football. I think that if people start kids playing later on in their lives would be the way to go. It is crazy to think that kids as young as eight and even younger play football. They are still growing and if they get a serious injury it could effect them for the rest of their lives.
A passage that stood out to me was:
"He added, “Football isn’t for everyone, Scott.”
He’s right. It’s not for everyone. But it was definitely for me. And it is definitely for a lot of other people, too. So, just because I am torn about the game, it’s not my responsibility to make other parents’ decisions for them. But I do feel an obligation to inform them." I really agree with this because parents should look at the information given to them but ultimately they need to be the ones that make the choice if their child is going to play football. They can't completely rely on the advice from someone else.
Injuries can happen in any sport. Many people are concerned mostly with the consequences of playing football, but in reality those consequences can happen in most sports. People have said that soccer is a dangerous sport because more and more people are getting concussions. There's no way to completely avoid the injuries that result from playing a sport. But still the author said that he never regretted playing the sport. That if he could go back and do it all over again he would. Sports create teamwork, close knit relationships, and many good characteristics such as devotion, determination, and hard work. People ask the author if he'd let his son play football. He responds with the answer no, but if it really came down to it, would he? After experiencing the fierce passion he has for the sport, how could he deny that passion from his son? People are going to do what they love, despite the consequences. Just last year my mother told me to stop playing soccer because I could get a concussion, but I said no. I told her it wasn't her choice. Soccer is definitely not "my main" sport, nor do I feel the passion for it that I feel for riding, but it is rewarding in its own way. It definitely forces me to work hard, and it teaches me to never give up it keep working even harder.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the fact that football is dangerous. As he said in the article, the players are bigger and more muscular than they've ever been. With all we know about exercise and the human body, we know how to make someone perform at their best. So, when you put 20 grown men, who are the extremes of the growth spectrum, and who have trained for years to be in the physical shape that they're in, together on a field rushing one another. Injuries are expected, and I think a sport where the injuries are so intense, and life threatening, is not a sport that should be widely supported.
ReplyDeleteI can connect to when the author was talking about when he first asked his parents about playing the game. I remember I started in fourth grade and an going my parents about it for quite seem time. My mother reacted just as the author's parents did, with some hesitation and worry about injury. However my father however wasn't quite as hesitant. My dad likes to think he's a real tough guy and the I think that when I told him I wanted to play tackle football it got him really excited. But just like my mother he was worried about the injuries. But through some time I eventually broke them down and was allowed to play.
ReplyDeleteI feel that many other sports are just as rough on ones body as football. Though football has a reputation of being a sport where people are willing to hurt others just to get them down, many other sports have similar properties. They may not have tackling but hockey is just as if not more brutal wig checks. Oe can move faster on skate than running and a solid wall has less give than another person. Soccer is, from my own experience, also a very rough game. Just because contact is limited in the rules of soccer doesn't mean that the limits are never crossed. A couple times a game in most cases people are hit quite hard or taken out by a slide tackle, and to make it worse the only padding that soccer players have is shin guards leaving them very exposed. On top of that heading is a part of soccer that many want to get removed from the sport at least for children. In short. I feel this article brings up an interesting point, but I feel that it looks too closely at football when the real question should be about general athletics for kids, or at least a larger set of sports than just football.
ReplyDeleteI actually agree with his dad, if I have a son and he wants to play football he can play. It may be up to me if he can play. If he wants to you should let him instead of making him wonder what he could be if he played.
ReplyDelete"Right around the time those questions started, I developed a deep love-hate relationship with the game. I loved playing on Sundays. I loved the paychecks. I loved the guys in the locker room. But I hated what football was doing to so many people around me, and I hated what it was probably doing to me"
ReplyDeleteI agree when he says about hating what football was doing to everyone. I mean he explained pretty well what he likes pay checks. Maybe the pay checks were changing the game and the players
Everything you do in life has a risk factor, but that doesn't mean you should live in fear of what if situations. There are sharks in the ocean, but parents still bring their kids on tropical vacations. I don't think the violence associated with football is any worse than letting your kid ride a horse with the chance they could get bucked off. I think this boy should be allowed to play a sport he's interested in do he doesn't grow up with regrets and so he can broaden his comfort zone.
ReplyDeleteI agree that kids shouldn't be playing football because of the dangers that happen, but I also think that the kids should be able to play if it they are passionate about it. I think that parents should first listen to what their kids have to say before making the decision.
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