Pathos Argument Gavin Miller

 

                                          Does playing football make you violent?                 By Gavin Miller

 
             Since the start of its creation, football has been well known to be a very dangerous sport and even now it's considered one of the most violent sports. Football players are now exhibiting very serious injuries to the brain because of helmet to helmet hits and it's causing a lot of trouble around the NFL. These brain injuries are shown to cause death and it's starting to become more and more noticeable when retired football players are dying at young ages. Not only have these helmet to helmet hits shown to make players die at a young age but in some cases make football players become violent. The NFL needs to re-do their ruling on helmet to helmet hits in order to stop these terrible things from happening. It seems as though the NFL truly does not care about these injuries and will continue to not change any of the rules.

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   Dan Diamond, an author at Forbes, claims that "NFL players are about four times more likely to be arrested for domestic abuse than you'd expect"(Diamond), meaning that these helmet to helmet hits are more dangerous than people first expected. These helmet to helmet hits are the reason that football players are becoming violent and unfortunately getting into domestic abuse problems. It's very sad to see these football players career vanish because of how violent they can get. The domestic abuse rate shouldn't be up that high and it's sad that football is in the situation that it is now.

  Tony Asci at Bleacher Report says that "Often times, we see a vicious hit on the field with no penalty administration"(Asci), even with the "rules" the NFL has now it seems nothing is happening to fix the helmet to helmet solution. As someone who use to play football growing up I saw many of these horrifying helmet to helmet hits happen. Players would get dragged off the field and there would still be no penalty. It's ridiculous to think that injuries that could make people violent or even die are just shoved off. Hopefully one day better rules will be put in for helmet to helmet hits, and hopefully sooner.



Diamond, Dan. “Does Playing Football Make You Violent? Examining The Evidence.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 6 May 2015

 Asci, Tony. “NFL's Concussion Repercussion: Helmet-To-Helmet Hits Threatening the Game?”Bleacher Report, Bleacher Report, 12 Apr. 2017

 www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2017/09/28/packers-rb-ty-montgomery-knocked-out-of-bears-game/106100940/


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  1. GatsbyGirlMarch 19, 2018 at 9:31 AM

    The personal element at the end helped. Use more connotative language throughout to better engage the reader in the emotional aspects of the topic.

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