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Rhetorical Analysis Of Do You Like Watching Football.

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“Do you like to watch Football? Then Watch what really happens” is written by Markus Koch. Who is a Holistic Health Practitioner and also former football player for the Red Skins and played in the super bowl in “1988”. Koch wrote this article to inform others of CTE, which stands for Chronic encephalopathy and is a brain injury that can only be detected after death of a player. Within in the article he continuously talks about how players suffer and that the NFL turns it cheek the other way, ignoring the side effects it causes for players. Which, includes football players going in a violent rage and end up being addicted to drugs. Many people beside Koch write about Football safety so that others will support them to make changes in football …show more content…

Koch wants to inform the viewers and the fans of how the NFL lacks care for its players and there is proof to show it “Try 24-hour coverage of a player’s life, as they pop pills” (Koch,3). Holistic Health Practice is trying to portray a picture of the players are effected by brain injuries and that the side effects of the issue in the NFL, could lead to suicide or other reckless behaviors. Koch wants to inform the fans and allow them to experience the full game of how players can suffer by developing a helmet that allows it to stream “duramater in a player’s cranium and full footage of the game” (Koch 4). The author wants to inform the viewers and fans of the outrageous affairs that happen in the NFL. Also, to convince the readers to be more aware of how the NFL treats it players with …show more content…

Koch shows credibility in this article by stating that he is a “holistic Health Practitioner”. This supports the evidence that he provides in the article is realistic and that viewers and trust him. He shows this by saying that football is a ‘spectacle of extreme, controlled mayhem and violence that entertains our thirst for domination” (Koch). Koch uses the information to show that he has knowledge of the football background, because he was a former player for the Washington red skins. He hopes by showing this the information the audience will understand that he is a credible source and that is work can be valued and

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