High School/Junior High Football Is Overrated

Hello my name is Aidan and I will first be refuting some of the arguments made in the last argument about whether Cross Country or XC is the best sport. My side of the topic is against it. Before I begin my argument let me first say that I have experienced Cross-Country and ran for the last 2 years before switching over to football this year. I also ski, snowboard get very good grades, do Color Guard for the Civil Air Patrol and numerous other activities. As well as me, many of my teammates on our football team also do other sports such as basketball or track. I will admit that there is some truth to the grades issue in football possibly because of the concussions that occur on the field of play during football practices and games. You have also said, "and dance I believe football (at high school-junior high level) is overrated. For instance, they get a full week to 'raise school spirits', hence homecoming, why sports such as Cross-Country go unnoticed. " I believe that homecoming week is much more fun because of the football game at the end. I've both ran in and watch Cross country races and I truly believe that it is a sport for the people who run in it and nobody else. On the other hand, you have football. Have you ever been sitting in the stands with your whole school screaming at the top of your lungs as a touchdown pass or big hit happens as the crowd roars. It brings out much more emotion and is much easier to watch while cross country is a numbers game and only that. It is all about what mile you can run, how much you have improved your time by and what place you have finished in. On to your next point "Saying anyone can run, it's not hard at all, yet they can't even run through our warm-up (which is a mile). Saying the other sports are unathletic and unskilled. " It is true in the most literal sense that anyone can run. I do believe that not everyone has the pain resistance to run as a sport. I can however guarantee you that my team can run much further than that. I would also like to make the point that a different type of running happens in the two sports. If you are going to sprint 10 yards to catch and tackle someone you will definitely take a much different pace than if you are running a full 5k because of common sense. This may be the reason that some of the football players seem unfit, because they are training for a different kind of event. It is like comparing an Olympic swimmers to an Olympic ski jumper, they have trained differently for different kinds of sports. I would like to ask before I refute, when you said, "Saying their sport is the real sport and that its dangerous" do you disagree that football is dangerous? Now, on to my argument. Football is more than just a game, it is a sport. As a sport it takes more to play than just any other game, it takes real heart. If you play football you put your body on the line for your teammates without any questions asked, it's not an option, it's an expectation. When I ran cross country I have some good memories such as placing for my team at state and so forth however, I have much better memories with just this one year of football that I have played. Even through the bad parts such as hard losses or hard practices it brings you closer together as a team and makes you a family. In cross country it is up to you and you alone to get your results, it can never be anyone else's fault that you messed up or did well. Even practices are different from any other sport I have ever played. You start off practicing very uniformly as a team for warm-ups, condition, break off individually to work on specialties (positions) then come back together as a team at the end of practice. Cross country practice was just never the same. The closest you ever came to being a team was at the finish line when it is all over. When you play football you have to stay together and be a team throughout the entire game and trust your teammates to get done what they should be getting done such as the O-line making their blocks or Wide Receiver running the correct routes and when that all comes together perfectly, it is truly an art of harmony.