If you haven’t started watching the second season of Friday Night Tykes on Esquire Network, you are missing out on a fascinating and unique look into the world of football.
Friday Night Tykes explores the passions, pains and sacrifices of football on a level where it is often the most personal – youth sports. As much as winning is everything (and Friday Night Tykes follows the Texas Youth Football Association where they take their football very seriously), the docu-series captures the struggle which youth football players and their parents go through when trying to balance the value of competition and team camaraderie against the dangers of violent hits and intense coaches who look to push the players to, and sometimes beyond, their limits.
The show viscerally captures very real moral dilemmas in competitive youth sports. Is it healthy for adults to put kids in a position where they’re told to try and win and at all costs? Are the very real benefits of youth football worth the risks to a child’s health and well-being? How much leeway should coaches be given in dictating the conduct of their teams given that their players are young and impressionable? And does any of that matter when one is a part of the most competitive youth football league in the country?
The only way to find out is to watch what happens on Friday Night Tykes. The second season just got underway on Esquire Network and the show airs on Tuesdays at 9/8c. Don’t miss out.
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