He's been running down the field now for 17 years, and free university education for all! lyrics But I want to see games for play, not for pay. I greatly support physical fitness and exercise.
0001% who make it to the NFL, most can look forward to a 3 year "career" before injuries take them off the bench for good. In college, athletes are often placed in easy courses and graduate without basic college skills.įor the. Would inner city students and their families come to see good grades as the way out of poverty? I worry for the crop of college athletes who will become disabled without ever getting an NFL tryout.
What if black students became Nobel Laureates instead of media objects - like William "Refrigerator" Perry? I grieve for the thousands of disabled middle school, junior high and high school students who will never get that chance for a college scholarship. What would our society look like today if we had instead distributed those millions of dollars to the most academically promising students? I mourn the disabling "sports" carnage that starts in elementary school. Here's my essay on football:Įvery year millions of dollars are awarded in college athletic scholarships. I wrote this song in 1990 - long before the story of concussive disorders in football hit the news.
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