The whole country knows what happened during the Monday Night Football game against the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals. The 24-year-old Damar Hamlin collapsed due to a cardiac arrest. This cardiac arrest could have been an instance of commotio cordis which is a blunt force impact disrupts the heart’s rhythm. This type of cardiac arrest is very rare.
In the 21st century 11-player tackle football was trending in high school, until the 2009-2010 academic year. The newest survey from the NFHS shows that in the 2021-22 academic school year there are less than 1 million people involved in 11-player high school football. That is the first time on record with fewer than a million players in 11-player football. This is a decrease of 12.2% from the peak in the years of 2008-2009. Football isn’t the only sport decreasing in size basketball is also decreasing. On the other hand, track and field and soccer are increasing. Soccer is increasing the most from the sports. In the 2018-19 school year there were 4.5 million boys involved in sports and there is 3.4 million girls involved in sports in that same school year. Now there are 200,000 less girls and boys as well, 400,000 people, in total, less in a 4 year span.
In my opinion, I don’t think that it is because of the injuries. I think its from the new technology. I think that the injuries also have some play in the decrease of people or students but not as much as technology. The new technology is starting to make people “lazier”. Instead of actually playing the sport you can play in online with friends instead.
Why do you think the number of students are decreasing?
Do you think that technology and online games play a part in the numbers?
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I agree with you. I think sometimes sports practices are too long but if the team didn't have those long practices then they wouldn't possibly perform as good as they could in games.
I think people are just getting lazier and people dont care anymore in life. people like to have jobs and make money instead of having 2-3 hour practices and not being able to do anything in life. i think if coaches werent so pushy and practice wasnt so long we would have more people out for sports.
I agree. I think that if coaches wasn't as strict with practices more people would be in more sports. I also think that if coaches did that their team wouldn't be as good as before.
I think that the number of students is decreasing because these sports are very dangerous. My brother has been injured twice, from a broken ankle from football and a concusssion from basketball. Although, video games and technology have hurt the number of players, the facts are that many people who play sports, mostly football, have been injured or now have conditions that resulted from the sport.
I agree because the number of injuries in sports have increased and I think they are getting worse as well. Video games and technology have also decreased the amount of people in sports.
Personally, I think that sports participation is decreasing because there are a lot of older players that are coming out with injuries now. People see that sports, while they can be very good for you, can also cause lasting damage. If it is a risk you are willing to take, though, sports are very beneficial as well.
I agree. Lately in sports there have been a lot of injuries and more people are taking not of that. Especially Damar Hamlin, the whole nation knew about that.
They could also be decreasing because there are less people in school, less people could mean the same percent of people are in sports it just lower number. I think that technology could play a part in the decreasing numbers just because some people would rather spend their time playing at home then outside getting sweaty.
I agree that technology plays a big part in less participation. People would rather play it inside in control temperature and relaxing instead of sweating outside and can't control the temperature or weather.
I agree with what you said. There very well could be less people in school which means there would be less participation in sports.
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