America’s newfound favorite pastime, football, came from a bizarre chain of events. Football started when a soccer player got fed up with just kicking the ball, so he picked up the ball and ran to the goal. His actions of picking up the ball and running with it fathered a new European sport, rugby, which was soon brought over to American shores, and was altered slightly, the shape of the ball and a few other small rules. The sport became organized into a league and produced the NFL(National Football League). The NFL had a slow beginning, but has picked up popularity, currently having a 9 billion dollar yearly revenue. Playing football comes with great costs, including physical and mental health deterioration, plus the amount of time spent prepping before game day. Which can pose several questions, “Why suffer for a game, Is it worth the money? Is it worth the fame? How great is the cost?” I believe that football, should have stricter regulations for the treatment of injuries, along with informing players of just how devastating a concussion can be, along with the other major injuries that commonly occur while playing football.
A big part of NFL’s hold on players is their contract and money. Thousands of young men aspire to be on a professional team, just for the fame, money and title. They are not made aware of the lasting conditions that come with playing football and their everlasting effects. If anything NFL has gone out of their way to discredit the newer research that links playing football with CTE. CTE stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is a disease that has the same effects as dementia and Alzheimer’s, except for CTE leaves tau protein deposition in distinctive areas of the brain, which is what separates C...
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Football players can suffer from TBIs, which could ultimately lead to the development of CTE.... ... middle of paper ... ... It was stated in the Frontline episode, “As long as the NFL dismissed claims [of TBI and CTE] parents continued to [allow] their children to play football without knowing the repercussions.”
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What does Jovan Belcher, Ray Esterling and O.J. Murdock Have in common? They all were famous football players who commented suicide. Each player had something called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE. This is a condition where sufferers have had repeated hits to the head that leads to concussions and ultimately head trauma. In this research paper, we will go over the data about the NFL to see could they have prevented CTE in these players if they had placed the player’s safety first.
League of Denial is a documentary film, about traumatic brain injury in the National Football League (NFL), particularly concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). League of Denial follows the
Athletes are one of the most highly paid professions, and with that comes a great responsibility to everyone but themselves, even it means putting their lives, and others around them at risk. A football player’s goal is to entertain the fans that tune in to watch them, however their only job is to win their games, and untimely a Super Bowl Championship, but not for themselves, for the franchise that owns them and their bodies. As long as they can run a play and take a hit foot players are gold to their employers, or if you will their owners. “Toughing it out, turns out, can kill people.” (Diaz Truman, M 2013), and cause irreversible brain damage to football players. Continuing to ignore evidence that supports the growing concern of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and how it relates to the NFL players is troubling because of the long term affects it has on a player’s mental s...
The settlement came as a surprise to most people. Hopefully it can provide some relief for players and their families who are suffering with long-term conditions caused by concussions.
Many memories are made in football, but sadly some of the greatest players cannot recall them. The National Football League has been associated with concussions and brain traumas throughout the years, but lately it has been exposed by media and NFL veterans. The league recently “reached a $765 million preliminary settlement with thousands of former players who were suing the league over its treatment of concussions…” (Waldron). Many former players are experiencing the effects of taking hard hits over and over again; they were not properly treated, which makes the injury worse and long term. The concussion issue in the NFL is more prevalent today, because it affects not only the players, but the league as a whole.
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For Safer Football claims that the NFL has not done enough to make the NFL safer. They believe the NFL should do more to combat the decline in children signing up to play football in youth leagues and we should do more on the grassroots level. For Safer Football is also concerned that the NFL has lost too much money because of lawsuits, and bad publicity.
Despite coming from a diverse background and being relatively new to film, Landesman wrote a moving story that shines a new light on safety regarding the NFL and if nothing more, “Concussion just may bring awareness to a truly terrible, yet barely known
“I’ve had times where I walked up to the line, where I know the play, but I don’t know what to do.” – Oakland Raiders tight end Tony Stewart. SIRS date base reports that athletes who repeatedly get blows to the head can result in CTE, which is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a progressive generative brain disease. Many concussions occur while playing sports such as, football, ice hockey, soccer, rugby, and boxing. According to SIRS date base, “symptoms of a concussion include headache, dizziness, vomiting, nausea, light sensitivity and blurred vision or double vision.” Also, “researchers at Boston University studied the brains of 79 former NFL players and found that 76 tested positive for CTE” (SIRS). This paper will examine viewpoint one,
“Football isn’t being ruined by these changes, it’s being saved” (Banks). Changes have already been made by the NFL as well as little leagues to protect the players. These changes have proven necessary with the prominence of concussions in football. “The National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research says all football games (from sandlot to NFL) cause an average of 9
Obviously rough and now medically proven to be extremely dangerous, football is dire need of rules and equipment change. Whistleblowers and cover-ups continue to find their way into mainstream media and government documentation, yet the NFL continues to side-step taking responsibility for prior, present day, and future players’
“Is it ok to watch football?” by Ian Crouch states that even though so many people love to watch it on a daily basis, they do not open their eyes fully to see the ultimate consequences for the players and their health (Crouch 1). As football players are playing a contact sport they are hurting many areas of the body including the most important part, the brain. In the article Jackson, a former football player continues on about injuries that he had throughout his career and how he continued to play through it because he loved the sport so much. Everyone has their own view on football, but the most important opinions are those from families of the players in the NFL ...