High School Football

Frontline talks about the dangers and harmful effects high school football can have on the athletes. The documentary talks about the head injuries or trauma the players put on their bodies when they are being bounced around on the field. A question we should ask ourselves is, is it really worth a life threating injury to play a sport we love? A lot of the players especially that are graduating next year are looking for a scholarship for college. If they get injured or over work themselves to cause some health problems that will lower their chances of getting a scholarship.

Their practice is all year around and can take place in over 100 degree weather. Frontline showed a player being taken away by ambulance with a heat stroke and a temp of 108. That is insane. Coaches have to understand that their players are only human and by having practice in dangerous heat is putting harm on their bodies. Football is a game just like basketball and baseball and it should be played like a game. Players shouldn’t have to put themselves in situations where they are endangering their health to get a scholarship and play the game that they love.