Explain the symbolic meaning of a piece of clothing

I feel like most t shirts i own are symbolic of something i did in my life. from places i have worked to teams i have played on places ive been. One of my favorite and probably most obvious is my high school fooball jersey, and its not because i was some stud who was amazing or the best player on the team. That Jersey represents the ups and downs of that season and it makes me think of my bestfriend who i played next to for four years and now drive 3 hours to visit 5 to 6 times a year. That season was rather interesting personally interesting that is . team wise we missed playoffs by one game and were as average as average can get. I however started very low during my senoir year that is. I was going to be the camptain and i had that Idea in my head because only 4 year players could be captians and only me and one my bestfriend had played all four years and i thought i would beat out my friend because i was much more vocal and outspoken. I feel like when you have to tell a bunch of high school kids to get there shit together it helps to be loud and obnosios.  my plans of being captain were soon stopped short because a week before the season was scheduled to start i got in a bit of trouble. I almost got arrested for stealling street signs. Well i was not really stealing i was driving my friends car and him and another person would go commit the hannise act. So of course i had to tell my coach which basically took me out of the running for that position. Throughout the year we would have what would call an honorary captian each week and i was "honorary" captian about half the season hmmm. anyway after that first little hickup we played a couple of games and i played pretty good it was a good start to my last year. Then came the worst week of practice i had ever had. The week schedule for practices were as follows monday we would watch film and not wear pads and talk about plans for nexts strategy. Tuesday was always fun and that was the "hitting" day were we would do tackling drills and basically pumble the snot out of each other. Nearing the end of that day i felt a sharp pain in my middle finger almost like a really intense jammed finger and i told the trainer and he oh its just a jammed finger so i said ok and finished practice. wednesday we really hit it hard running plays all day

what does it mean when i say concussion? does it mean having headaches or blacking out getting dementia shooting yourself in the heart so your brain can be studied. for me i think of the time i was getting my cast covered before practice and someone had gotten hit so hard warming up he could barily stammer his name out. Or when i would go weeks at a time struggling to stay awake in classes i was really interested because i was tired all the time. Or struggle to focus when i was awake because i had a headache for weeks at a time i guess thats a migrane now that i think of it or how many of my other friends who felt the same way but never told anyone and i feel for nfl players who have serious problems from this but now more than ever people entering the nfl know the risk and the rewards of playing. I feel the most people effected are high school players and college players of course. When i played 3 years ago there were helmets that were at least ten years old that would hand to kids. Thats scary now that we know what getting a concusion does to your brain a devolping brain that is and of course i am focussing on football because being an american that is the most popular contact sport for young men and has the most likelihood of causing a concusion. the big problem i feel is many coaches are always in the tough it out mentality and for many things that is on it probably wont cause a hole lot of extra damage like i played 3 days of practice with a broken hand yeah it was painful as all ge out but i didnt make it any worse than it would have already been

concussions are like that whining noise in your car you are scared of what the problem because you know it is negative but if you never take it too a shop to find out maybe it will be fine is how you justify it in your own head, but in the back of your mind you know there is a real problem and it is gonna be louder and louder and maybe the engine wont have as much power or it leaks oil now using more gas you still put it off and then it gets so bad your car wont start it is imbilized you have no way to get to work or school you are SOL so how does this relate to the mindset of young high school kids playing that good old game of foosball one day youll get hit and sometimes but not always youll be like what just happened and out of it for the next couple plays maybe get yelled at by your coach because you messed up and you keep playing because it goes away the next day your drowsey and have a splitting headache this continues and then you go to practice and bash your helmet against another person for a good 2.5 hours and this cycle continues for a week or two your girlfriend start complaining your distant or not talkative and you retort something snarchy back to her and you dont think this at the time but you look back and think thats not normally how i act and then you do it to your parents and maybe even to your coaches