About Us

Samuel Herbay's Bio

Samuel Brian Herbay was born on April 7th, 2000, and ever since has been infamous for an ability of his which will go unnamed in this bio, but certainly not unknown. Samuel went to Jefferson Middle School, where he met his partners in this project, Chris and Bing Bong, and was known for making extraneous noises in his 8th grade math class. Samuel also played Soccer in high school, going to way too many lifting sessions than necessary, all the while trying to get the shrimpy Emmett Meinzer to go so he wouldn't look so much like a stick. To this day Emmett Meinzer has not seriously lifted a bar once in his life, and still looks a stick. Despite failing to bring Emmett Meinzer to the weight room, Samuel succeeded in becoming strong enough himself to do more than a single pull-up at a time, marking the first time he ever truly felt like a man. He has not peaked higher since that day, and dreams of it every night, waking up in tears of the realization that he will never reach a greater high. Now Samuel plans to attend the University of Pittsburgh where he says he will study "Business," but really has no idea what he is going to do with himself.

Samuel is interested in this subject because he once played Football in his middle school years and has hated the sport ever since. After experiencing daily drills where two players would essentially be forced to ram their heads into one another, Sam wondered, "is this really a good idea?", to which he then thought, "I'm not sure, my head hurts." Now as Sam has aged, his mind has grown larger, and he realizes that it really is not a good idea to bang your head into things for sport, and aims to prove so in this project.

Chris Pesta's Bio

Chris played the sport of football throughout elementary school and generally enjoys playing and watching the game. He works with a local peewee football league, watching a great majority of the games to keep score and film the games. While watching young children, as well as professional athletes, playing the game and hearing of the research that has been done on deceased football players, Chris has grown increasingly weary of football's effects on the human body and brain. Despite still enjoying and having a love for the sport, Chris is questioning if football should continue to exist and if the dangers of the sport are truly worth it.

Alex Sahinidis's Bio

Although Alex has never played the sport of football competitively on a team, his athleticism shows that his skill level is as good, if not better, than Odell Beckham Jr's, a superstar wide receiver on the New York Giants of the NFL. As a soccer player, Alex would hate hitting the ball with his head (since it would feel unnatural afterwards). Having to hit the ball with this part of his body only happened rarely, however, since his athleticism allowed him to jump so high in the air that he could use any part of his body to hit a ball that the average player would need to head. While Alex jumps around the field at high altitudes, he can see all the players on the field struggling to hit the ball with their head. Alex could see the repetitive head hits plaguing the players and thought, "is this even healthy to hit a ball moving so fast with your head? It's not like most people even know the proper technique for this. Hmmm, this view up here is very nice. Anyways, I couldn't even imagine having to play a sport like football, where you get hit on your head almost every play."

After this eye-opening incident, Alex wanted to address any issues with concussions in football to the people he surrounded himself with, but neglected to research anything about CTE since he deemed the condition as rare, until he noticed that CTE affects a considerable amount of professional football players, rather than a negligible fraction. With his newly-found knowledge, Alex did not just want to inform people about the dangers in football considering head trauma. Instead, he vowed that until his last, dying breath the general public would become so aware of the threats that football poses that the sport itself would be extinct. This Google Site project, therefore, became the first step in this journey for Alex's impossible, yet much-needed, feat.