High on Football

        Parents put their kids in sports as soon as they are old enough and our culture and society suggest that sports are what make you a man and give you masculinity, young kids are starting to feel the pressure of becoming bigger and better than ever before. This constant pressure is pushing some teens past the limit to a dangerous point. In the document Football High we are shown that doctors have been studying the effects of playing football on the brain. Helmets are only worn to protect against skull fractures, not concussions and other internal brain damage and that's where the problem comes about. Football players even in high school have a decreased ability to remember things over the course of the football season because of the effect hits that they take have on their brains. The only solution to this problem is to take out the aggressive physical contact that football is based around or to better design our football helmets so that they protect against both skull fractures as well as brain damage that occurs from being hit and tackled all the time.
        Another issue brought up by this documentary is the issue of these players not knowing their own physical limits. Because of the constant pressures they face to be bigger and better than everyone else they push themselves even harder than ever before and some of them don't know how far is too far. We are given an example in the documentary of a young gentlemen who pushed himself so hard in practice that he had a heat stroke and eventually passed away. Players are also playing with injuries, they aren't taking into account the effects their actions they are taking will have on their body down the road. A solution to this problem is changing the views of our entire culture and society but in the mean time we could educate these football players on what could happen in the future if they don't take care of their bodies now.