Read these plot reviews for the movies : Knute Rockne: All-American and Concussion (2015) :  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knute_Rockne,_All_Am…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concussion_(2015_fil… 

Many social theorists have examined violence and masculinity in society. The famous French theorist Michel Foucault discusses this in works such as Discipline and Punish and discusses how formal institutions such as the military, prisons, and schools create order in society. Others talk about things like “the ritual sacrifice of human energy” as a need in society that is manifested particularly in sports.

In football, abuse of young men and their bodies is accepted in ways that would not be accepted in wider society outside of the military or prison. How and why did it become acceptable for young men to be pushed to the limit in football and why do we continue to accept it in our society? Why are boys and girls bodies treated differently? How do people react when a girl wants to play football? Have there been changes in training since the days of Rockne and of Bear Bryant?

Can you argue that based on new medical evidence, that perhaps the costs of playing the game are greater than the rewards? Given the effects of CTE and other means of damaging one’s body, what, would you predict, may be the long-term effects of the game in the future?