Lasting Impact: One Team, One Season. What Happens When Our Sons Play Football Audiobook (Free)

New York Instances bestselling author Kostya Kennedy sets this captivating, character-rich tale against the back-drop of one of the very most pressing queries in sports: should we let our sons play soccer? At the high end of America’s most popular game is the glittering NFL, a fan-stoked money machine and in addition an opaque organization under scrutiny for the physical dangers imposed on its players. Then there’s senior high school football, unrivaled for the key existence lessons it imparts-discipline, about Lasting Effect: One Group, One Season. What Happens When Our Sons Play Soccer leadership, co-operation, humility, perseverance-yet also a brain-rattling, bone-breaking game whose consequences are at best misinterpreted, and, at the worst, deadly. What’s the mother or father of a young athlete to make of that?

The New Rochelle High School team in suburban New York is like many across the country: a source of civic pride, a manhood workshop for a revered coach and an emotional proving ground for boys of widely different backgrounds. In the fall of 2014, New Rochelle’s period unfolded alongside watershed NFL mind injury revelations and local abuse cases (remember Ray Grain?), aswell as fatalities on close by fields.

The dramatic story of that season, for players, parents and coaches, underscores fundamental questions. Are football’s inherent risks so great that the sport might not survive as we realize it? Or are those dangers worth the benefits that the overall game is constantly on the bestow, and that may stay with a young man for a lifetime?