Long Live Football Research Paper

Words: 680
Pages: 3

Title: Long Live Football!

Introduction A game that started in 1896, using a simple ball and players throwing it and catching it. Now in 2024 there are over 17 million people watching the game and around 5.6 million people playing it. But now it is losing popularity due to the injuries that it has caused to people. But the changes that are being made to decrease injuries, and the changes they are making to high school football, evidence makes it obvious that football will regain its popularity.

Body paragraph #1 To start with, football has made some major changes to reduce the amount of injuries that it causes. For instance in the passage "Football Is here to Stay", it states that "A more significant omen is that N.F.L. neurological damage is not getting worse, but rather is in decline. Concussions are down to the ground. Numerous rules changes led to the N.F.L. reporting 214 concussions last season, versus 281 the season before. Over the five prior seasons, the average was 243 concussions." This shows that football people are doing anything they can to
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One reason they might think this is stated in the same text when it says, "Still, many people presume the sport is in an irreversible tailspin. They think that mounting evidence of brain trauma from concussions, along with the sort of routine brutality that led to the surprise retirement of 29-year-old quarterback Andrew Luck, will result in football losing its mass appeal. It is also assumed that parents of young athletes will refuse to allow their children to play football at the youth and high school levels, depleting the talent pool." However, while this may be true, the football industry and coaches are changing some small things in football that impact the amount of injuries bigtime, which is shown in the evidence on the other body