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This 5 page paper takes the form of a letter to the editor in which a football coach takes exception to the remarks of ex-player John McMurtry in his article about football, "Smash Thy Neighbor." Bibliography lists 1 source.
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winning team and the finesse of a well-executed play. He speaks of the violence of the game but never of its precision. As a long-time coach, I feel insulted by
his remarks and would like to set the record straight on several points. First, he argues that "body shattering is the very point of football, as killing and maiming are
of war" (McMurtry, p. 502). He then goes into an extended comparison of the phrases used in football ("Kill em!") and suggests that anyone who utters these during the game
is in effect rallying his troops for battle. In a sense of course hes right, but any coach who sends his players onto the field with the command that they
kill the opponents in the literal sense has lost his mind. "Body shattering" is not the point of football, winning the game is the point. Like every other coach
I know, I would prefer to have a well-played, exciting game in which no one is injured rather than the kind of bloodbath McMurtry describes. But football is a sport
in which players use their bodies to block other players (in fact their bodies are their equipment in the same way that a baseball players bat is his), and injuries
are bound to occur, even when players wear all their protective equipment. The only way to prevent this would be to change the rules of the game completely so that
any bodily contact is forbidden, but then it wouldnt be football, would it? And besides, numerous players have been injured by lacrosse sticks, hockey pucks and tennis rackets. As
more and more money has come into the game, the pressure to win has increased, and the fans have become more vociferous as well. But to suggest that people screaming
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