The mindset that society imposes on most high school athletes can deprive them of education and other opportunities they might have for their future. For many high school football athletes, they primarily focus on one thing throughout their high school years: sports. Evidence 1: In cities like Odessa in Friday Night Lights, players are engulfed in the glamor of soccer and neglect most things not related to soccer, rather than balancing sports and academics. "It was a phenomenon Trapper had seen dozens of times before, a child so caught up in it all that there was no room for anything else, another child for whom nothing in life would ever be as glorious, as fulfilling as playing high school football. He saw it as “the kiss of death” (Bissinger 284). Top football cities are pressured and trapped by the sport, so much so that they are negatively affected by this mindset. Their days spent playing football would be the highlight of their lives, as they neglected. everything else....