The True Costs of Participating in High School Football

After watching the video "Football High", it brought up a lot of issues that high school football players deal with. The main problem is the players safety, and brain damage that can occur later in life due to participating in the sport. At one point in the video a player named "Garrett" gets hit very hard in the head during a play, he is slow to get up but when he runs off the field to the athletic trainer the first thing he says is "I remember everything." Garrett saying that is a great example of CORFing, he is trying to avoid that fact that he is concusst which is a REAL injury. All the player cares about it playing the sport he loves, all he is focused on is the next play which he should not be participating in since he is injured.
You could also argue that Garrett is showing BIRGing by his drive and enthusiasm to play when he is injured. He see's his team almost like a family, if he is injured and cannot play he feels like he is letting everyone down. He feels the need for the team to succeed, and if they win Garrett will feel a sense of success. Another great example of CORFing comes from the coach of Garrett's team (Shilo.) When the team goes all the way to the championship round they are crushed when they lose to the better team. The coach of Shilo's team gathers the team in a huddle after the game, he goes on to basically say how the other team wanted the win more. During this post-game huddle speech he refers to the team as "they" as in every single person as a whole, blaming everyone for the lack of success during such an important game.