Article Analysis: Future of HS football

This is my analysis of the future-of-high-school football article.

It relates to our class in the following ways:
* It is about high school football, which we can connect with because we are ourselves part of a high school. It's true that our high school doesn't have a football team, but all of us have been at high schools with football teams before. Most of us have attended high school football games and know what they're like. Some of us have played high school football.
* It's about high school football in California--as opposed to high school football in Texas, which is what Friday Night Lights is about. Our class is watching Friday Night Lights on Fridays, and we briefly discussed how different football is in the two states. This article discusses some of the reasons football is less popular in California.
* It is about the safety issues faced by high school football players. Football players commonly get concussions when they are playing, and that raises the issue of whether people should have the right to play tackle football and risk injury, and send their kids to risk that type of injury. This is sort of a free speech issue, which is one of the "American Experiment" themes covered by Neil Postman. America's ongoing argument about whether there must be limits on free speech is something we all have the chance to take part in, and the article talks about this when it quotes different parents going back and forth about whether it should be allowed. Some parents claim that safety-minded parents are restricting their freedom of speech and preventing their children from getting the benefit that comes from the dangers of a violent sport.

Article link: https://www.theringer.com/features/2019/1/22/18192071/california-high-school-football-future-politics

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The Island High soccer team's successful season ended abruptly on Friday, December 14, as the Teepees fell 12-5 to Lincoln High School of Oakland.


Lincoln's big margin of victory came thanks to a dominant second half. Island led the game early by a 4-0 score. Then after Lincoln came back to tie it, Island scored what briefly seemed to be a pivotal goal to go up 5-4 in the second half.

But Island's advantage was short-lived. Lincoln responded within a minute with a long goal from beyond the two-point line that vaulted them in front for a 6-5 lead. They followed that with a flurry of scoring. Lincoln struck four more times in all, but twice more from two-point range.

"It's fair," Abraham Urias said. "It's kind of what made them catch up to us. We ... scored