In Malcolm Gladwell’s 2009 article “Offensive Play,” he argues that dogfighting and football have similar effects on participants by using medical analysis, comparisons, and firsthand accounts. By taking the opinions of medical professionals such as Ann McKee, the head of the neuropathology laboratory at the Bedford, Massachusetts Veterans’ Hospital, he legitimizes his argument by supporting it with concrete, scientific evidence. He explains and uses terms such as “Tau” and “Beta-Amyloid” so that the reader understands what he is talking about and can follow what is happening later in the article when those terms are mentioned. Dogfighting and football are two sports that, at first glance, would not seem similar. At first, Gladwell tells two
