<p>That could work well, too. It’s good that you have been thinking about how you can use college to help you reach your goals.</p>
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-> Average age of an NFL player ≈ 55</p>
<p>Your parents are right.
Also, stop whining.</p>
<p>I hope this thread doesn’t die out or get locked, because it is fun to read all the reasons why the OP’s posts were edited.</p>
<p>My question is: why is someone who plans to:</p>
<p>" play football, do lots of programming and maybe go to college and if the business i’m planning works i’ll drop out"</p>
<p>seeking advice on college confidential?</p>
<p>Sorry about the asian/indian thing. I truly had no idea.</p>
<p>“they think i’ll get badly hurt and this and that.”</p>
<p>You might, you might not. Whether football offers unacceptable risks is a question for each family. But if you want to play, my strategic advice for you is not to dismiss or scoff at your parents’ safety concerns. You’ll get farther with them by showing respect for their fears and addressing them (in other words, tell them you will be careful, you will never practice without a helmet and pads, etc…don’t deny that football players get hurt sometimes).</p>
<p>I’m not Indian, nor am I an immigrant, but I have a similar situation with my son.</p>
<p>I have a wonderful high school son who is your age, who can be a very good student if he applies himself, and he does, but not as much as he reasonably could, as he does fall short grade wise when there is no question that a bit more, not a nose grinding amount more, could have gotten him an "A: instead of that "B+:. </p>
<p>His absolute favorite activity is football. He loves the sport and has for a long time. He so enjoys playing it. He is not a star, not a starter, not first string even. He gets some playing time, but not always. He is not built to be a football player, and I worry about him getting hurt. It is not an irrelevant concern. Every year, a number of football players get hurt, and sometimes severely. It also takes up a lot of his time. All year, it does, as they have to stay in condition, which means the weight room twice a week and touch ups during the summer even before the official practice season is permitted to start, and it would be very foolish to scrimp on those workouts as they build you up physically for the rigors and dangers of the practices and games to come.</p>
<p>And then when the practices come, that’s the main event, no way around it. He comes home from practice exhausted. Then there are the games, some of the hours away, which means a whole day gone for some of them. </p>
<p>He does not love academics. He has some pride in doing well, but he isn’t someone who enjoys academics. He loves football. </p>
<p>He also has some bad habits and does do thngs he is not supposed to do and doesn;t do things he is supposed to do, and is increasingly not listening to me. What can I do to make him do things as simple as take out the garbage, start your homework before the evening is nearly gone, don’t talk back in that tone and say those mean things…I think influence on the lives of a great many of his players, and that he was generous in donating we all know the routine here with teens and young adults. </p>
<p>So what do I do as a parent? i</p>
<p>@iamanapp: You’re comparing professional-level play with athletes in their prime physical condition who are payed millions upon millions of dollars for what they do with a bunch of 14 to 18 years-olds throwing a ball around? Sorry but that’s a ridiculous comparison.</p>
<p>Football is definitely not for the weak-hearted, but you people in this thread act like you’ll die if you make two steps into a football stadium.</p>