Tackle Football: A Game, Gaining Popularity in USA

It’s not a long back thing when one small town gave up this game called Tackle Football, when a retired doctor, James Harris carried with him a pickle jar which was filled with a bright red Jelly to school board meeting of Marshall. He shook it the jay and then the Jelly slashed against the glass, by this representation, he wanted to explain it to the school’s board members, the concept that what might happen to the brain it the football hits hard to head and what can happen to the kids at younger age if they are allowed to play. He explained as the brain in head is like the Jelly in this bottle. Further told that if the head of a teenager hits the ground, it may hit front and back of the head, and it can also twist, swishes, sloshes and stretches inside the skull. It was really a dramatic presentation. The board when saw the illustration, took a unanimous step on the matter instantly, it decide to ban tackle football. But now it has decided to bring it back for seventh graders, which was banned by the school board only five years ago. Football is a famous and loved game which is now treated as a culture in Marshall, a city comprising of 24,000 people located in East Texas, where such high school games can be a source draw attention of half of the city’s residents and the church timings is such that it ends early on Sundays when the Dallas Cowboys start playing tackle football. That even if at a point, even Marshall is not saved from the nationwide debate over whether and how the teenagers should play tackle football and may it shift the demographics of who are left playing it. The most important question lies as if the forming along the first years of tackle football, which includes the middle school children’s in many parts of the country, even as of today football stands by far the most popular sport in the United States. But looking to the current high school student’s participation, it denotes to drop more than 10 percent in the previous year decade, even in football basic home cities like Texas, Ohio and Florida, as young children’s and their families seek alternatives they perceive as safer.

By: Anuja Arora
Content: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/sports/youth-tackle-football-marshall-texas.html