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Young boy is pushed to be American football player - no pleasure - forced to play with broken ?ankle and smashed as scores touchdown ....... found to be massively concealing dysphoria
Help please
Alys P
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Kylie Warren trilogy by
Kylie Warren trilogy by Jennifer Sue
Another possibility
Another possibility of the story you are looking for is Unlikely Quarterback by Jessica C.
What?!
Forced to play with a broken ankle? Yikes! I'm not sure what laws are violated, but this has got to be criminal.
-- Daphne Xu
Coach says...
Play or lose that Football Scholarship. He plays and gets properly crocked which makes the scholarship mute.
Does that sort of make sense? From my observations(of living next door to the above players family) the only law the players follow is the one laid down by the Head Coach. Nothing else matters.
You gotta take one for the team etc . This was 30 years ago though.
Nothing like that happened when I played Rugby but School and College sports is not a multi-billion $ business here in the UK.
Samantha
Same here
I certain areas of the US where sports is a religion a child not playing because of a simple injury is unheard of. Now, this view is rather dated but I don't think it's changed that much. Thankfully, when I was a teenager and had my shoulder dislocated in a tournament my coach told me thanks for your hard work but you're done for the day.
Is fearr Gaeilge briste, ná Béarla clíste.
Broken Irish is better than clever English.
I remember
I never played football, but I had lots of friends who did. I remember many a time my friends telling me that they played the last half of the game with their ankle taped up because the either sprained it or cracked a bone. Basically the rule was, if you can stand up, you can play. (1960s)
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann
Admittedly...
The law gets disregarded routinely, or the prosecutor exercises his discretion not to prosecute. But there's also civil action as well as bad publicity. Also, check the actual policy on football scholarships, both in the particular school and in the NCAA. (Hopefully, procedural issues don't sabotage the substance of policy or the law. All too often, they do. Occasionally, it's the right thing.)
-- Daphne Xu
Kylie Warren
Rereading the Kylie Warren stories since this came up I am far enough into it to say that continuing to play with the broken ankle was pretty much Kyle's decision, he did not report the injury although he had the chance. The only force used was his father's verbal harassment. The whys of what Kyle did are explained in the second part of this first book. Several people are mentally warped here including Kyle. If I say more I'll get into plot spoilers.
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