Teen Essay: Small adjustments will not solve football's injury
problem   The fact that football is a dangerous game isn’t
exactly new. As far back as 1860, universities such as Yale
banned the sport due to its natural violence. Still, football
continued onward, and 45 years later, in 1905, there were 19
fatalities nationwide, inducing clamoring for some sort of
reform. Since then, various modifications have been made along
the way, from the advent of thigh pads to moving kickoffs up to
the 35-yard line, but it remains evident that football isn’t
safe, and never will be, despite any new helmet technologies
that might arise. Thus, expecting a real decrease in head
injuries by teaching proper tackling techniques or something of
the sort is entirely unrealistic.  Just as one can take a tiger
out of the jungle, but can’t take the jungle out of the tiger,
one can try to water down the contact in football, but the
naturally occurring violence is impossible to remove.  Changing
small things here and there like kickof