Ishaan's Opinion Leads

Here are three leads for an opinion piece convincing parents to let their kids play contact sports.

-Ishaan

TWIST

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Your child is running with the football. They’re inches away from gaining a first down. Suddenly, a hulking, gigantic figure wearing the opposing team’s uniform gets in his way. Before you can say anything, your child is being dragged off the field and into the locker room. He has a concussion.

Just kidding! In actuality, concussions are more and more a thing of the past. New, advanced technology in helmets and concussion monitoring have caused a huge drop in the number of concussions, and help ensure that those who suffer concussions are treated and returned to play as soon as possible.


DIRECT APPEAL

As a parent, you want the best for a child. Unless you’re a sociopath or, like the Church of the Sun in Montreal, you believe your child is the Antichrist, your goal is to ensure the safety and well-being of your child above all else. And when it comes to contact sports such as football and ice hockey, the best thing you can do for your child is to let them join in.


RHETORICAL

How can you take a child who has an absent parent, a dysfunctional school with under-performing teachers, and a weight problem and turn them into a successful college student with straight A’s? Just ask Antoine Rojas, a freshman and defensive back at Michigan State University who grew up in the notorious Southgate neighborhood of Detroit. If his parents hadn’t allowed him to play football as a young child, he might not even have graduated.