Summary Of Should Kids Play Football By Roxanne Jones

Football is considered as America’s favorite sport, it is usually many parents go to sport to get their child to active. Although in recent years a lot of parents have either taken their children out of football or will not allow them to play. This is for good reason as rising awareness of concussions and CTE (Chronic traumatic encephalopathy) have come about. CTE is a degenerative brain disease that causes people’s personalities to change and give them depression. In the article “Should you let your kids play football” the author Roxanne Jones presents her case on why parents should make an informed decision on whether on not people should let their child play football through anecdotal stories that use emotions to get people to think rationally

The article is on the Internet specifically on the CNN website which is said to be quite neutral compared to other news stations and websites. Something that was a detractor from the article was the many ads and links to articles that have nothing to do with the topic or even opinion pieces.
The author Roxanne Jones is a founding editor of ESPN The Magazine and a former vice president at ESPN. These former occupations establish her creditability on the topic since she is in tune with the sports world and has heard many stories about children playing football and how playing football affected their lives. She makes it clear that she doesn’t have personal experience with deciding whether or not to let a child play football but she does and plenty of anecdotes from others to help inform parents, with kids under the age of twelve, of the dangers of young children playing

This case was less extreme as the other example since her son started playing football at age eleven. What this anecdote does well is present the other side of the argument to the reader. As Debra’s son was a multisport athlete it could be said that football wasn’t the only contributor to her sons CTE. Including this made the article seem less bias, which helps get the message across better than shoving only one side of the argument down someone’s face. It also makes the argument more genuine since people can see more than just the articles opinion. The article seems to be more of an informative article rather than a persuasive one. That of course isn’t a bad thing since informing can be just as effective as