" In America we have laws, laws against killing, laws against stealing, and its excepted that as a member of American society you will live by these laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another society, which has its own set of laws. Football is a way of life." This excerpt taken from the beginning of Varsity Blues, which premiered in 1998, shows the way of life for high school football players. In this movie, Jon Moxon played by James Van Der Beek assumes the role of star quarterback after the starting quarterback suffers a career ending knee injury. This movie showed how athletics and athletes have become the center of everyone's life and how athletes can sometimes become higher than the law. In society today, high school sports have a great influence on the future of students, whether they will or where they go to college. This influence may seem good at the time but later turns into a bad influence, which could end in the student dropping out of school. In recent years, the amount of violence in sports and involvement of parents has helped to put to much stress and pressure on the athletes.

When children reach the age where they decide they want to get involved in sp

his fists and banged his head against the hard rubber mats, while his kids watched. Bystanders

professional baseball player and manager. In April 1999, Ray Knight former Cincinnati Reds

public place). These charges came up after an altercation at his daughter's softball game which

amount of contact in their son's hockey practice. The fight broke out because one parent,

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