Saturday, April 16, 2011

The High Price of High School Football

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I showed parts of this video to one of my Sports Marketing II classes on Friday. It's a fascinating look at big time football in Arkansas and Texas. One of the schools profiled had over 200 players on the team!

Later in the video, topics such as concussions and heat stroke are covered. My students seem resigned to the fact that concussions being part of the game, but I'm not sure that we want a bunch of brain-damaged 40-year-olds walking around after they played their last football game 20 years ago.

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