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Lasting Impact - One Team, One Season. What Happens When Our Sons Play Football (Hardcover)
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Lasting Impact - One Team, One Season. What Happens When Our Sons Play Football (Hardcover)
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New York Times bestselling author Kostya Kennedy sets this
captivating, character-rich story against the back-drop of one of
the most pressing questions in sports: Should we let our sons play
football? At the high end of America's most popular game is the
glittering NFL, a fan-stoked money machine and also an opaque
enterprise under scrutiny for the physical dangers imposed on its
players. Then there's high school football, unrivaled for the
crucial life lessons it imparts-discipline, leadership,
cooperation, humility, perseverance-yet also a brain-rattling,
bone-breaking game whose consequences are at best misunderstood,
and, at the very worst, deadly. What is the parent of a young
athlete to make of that? The New Rochelle High School team in
suburban New York is like many across the country: a source of
civic pride, a manhood workshop for a revered coach and an
emotional proving ground for boys of widely different backgrounds.
In the fall of 2014, New Rochelle's season unfolded alongside
watershed NFL head injury revelations and domestic abuse cases
(remember Ray Rice?), as well as fatalities on nearby fields. The
dramatic story of that season, for players, parents and coaches,
underscores fundamental questions. Are football's inherent risks so
great that the sport may not survive as we know it? Or are those
risks worth the rewards that the game continues to bestow, and that
can stay with a young man for a lifetime?
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