One of the hottest topics in football is the debate over safety. Arguably safety is the most important thing. Many facts have proven that to play football, you need to have safety. Safety can be dealt with protective equipment and less hits. There may also be negative effects of playing football. You need safety because it could hurt you and risk your life. First off, football is debated throught out the world in every house. After concerns about injuries to the brain, the NFL says it is making progress when it comes to keeping players safe. The league has shown that concussion rate has dropped 25% in 2014 from the number in 2013, and hits to the head concussion were down to 28%. Worries in concussions are just part of the reason why parents …show more content…
Using the right equipment allows that player to stay safe. Football is a contact sport, with large bodies colliding with each other with tremendous force. The object of the game is to hit someone, and as a result an injury may happen and is very common. Football can be prevented by wearing the right equipment, playing within the rules, and using proper technique. Too many injuries have happened because players do not wear the right equipment. The right equipment is not always the priciest. Some people don’t understand about how important the right equipment is. The most important equipment is a helmet. Helmets both new and used are not formally tested against forces believed to cause concussions. To play inside the rules mean to follow the rules. It means not to hit someone hard on purpose to injure them. Too many players are hurt from other people trying to hurt them. Most players need to learn the proper techniques of playing football. You must know and obey the rules of football. There’s is a reason why tripping, clipping, grabbing the facemask, blocking below the knees, and helmet-to-helmet hits are illegal. They can be dangerous to other and you. The point of the game is to hit the others teams players, but if u do not do it right, you will cost your team on the field and greatly increase the risk of injury. When making a tackle, you always want to have your head up and never lead with your head because that how bad things happen. This is known as the term spearing, which is not illegal. It greatly increases your chance of a traumatic head or neck injury. Before you play a game, you want to practice tackling with correct form until you are sure you can do it safely in a game. Know your vulnerabilities. If you are playing an offense positing, you will find yourself getting hit by other defenders who will try to tackle you. You will need to learn how to absorb the contact to
The average NFL player takes up to 1,000 blows to the head throughout their football career. Some of those blows can have the force of a sledgehammer (“RealNatural”). Based on a research study by Dr. Jesse David, there were 265 concussions reported in the 2012 season, during the 2011 season there were 266 concussions, and 270 concussions in 2010 season (Kacsmar). It has been known that repeated blows to the head can cause long-term brain damage since at least the 1950’s, long before most of the NFL players had begun their careers (“RealNatural”). Past infractions of the NFL have already resulted in over 4,500 forme...
Stats for the football leagues are a big deal for fans. Fans are obsessed with numbers its a big deal for the fans. In 2001 there were 150,000 athletes that were injured at the age of nineteen and younger. In 2009 there were 250,000 injured athletes at the age of nineteen and younger. There is a 6.3 per 1,000 incidence a college player will suffer a concussion while a high school athlete has a 11.2 per 1,000. Risk of concussions in football is high and equipment should continue to improve, but rules should stay the same in order for the game to remain
First, the rules that are enforced are a great way of making the game safe for the players. There are rules like, not being allowed to tackle certain ways. For example, if you tackle someone from the back by pulling them, then that is said to be an illegal tackle. It is also said that it is illegal for someone to pull on others facemask when tackling. There are many others rules that are enforced in the game. Another one is the rule that says, Head to Head is not allowed. What that basically is that you cannot tackle someone by contacting your helmet to the opposing player. This rule makes it greatly safe because it reduces the numbers of injuries that occur to the head and the neck. The head is the key part of the human body. When someone hits another player with the helmet in the head, it reduces the risks of concussion and that can result to serious and severe body failures, including being...
The American people not only love to win in anything, they live to win even when they, themselves are not the ones actually winning the game. The American people cheer with great enthusiasm when their team comes in first in a game, championship, or competition. To place anything less than first in any sport or academic competition is unfathomable, it is unappreciated, and frowned upon. Sadly, yet true the majority of all football players in the National Football League (NFL) see it this way as well. The USA is to blame for that. Football players throughout their careers during both on and off seasons, and practices are pushed to their breaking point, and most American people are unaware of the damage that is causes to their body mentally and physically, and the fear is that many of these players do not know the consequences of this brutally, dangerous sport.
The number of concussions in professional and amateur football has been rising and has sparked much controversy in recent years. These concussions are most likely linked with disease and even the deaths of some pro and semi-pro football players. New research is attempting to solve the problem but the issue is still prevalent in football today.
II. Summary: Players’ safety should be focused on more by making rules stricter in the NFL, teaching younger players how to tackle, and increasing the rules because helmets do not always prevent concussions.
Since football’s inception, it has been considered a manly sport. Young boys have been encouraged by their parents to participate in the game. For many boys, it is considered a rite of passage. However, football is a dangerous sport. A study conducted by the Center for Injury Research and Policy found, “an estimated 5.25 million football-related injuries among children and adolescents between 6 and 17 years of age were treated in U.S. emergency departments between 1990 and 2007. The annual number of football-related injuries increased 27 percent during the 18-year study period, jumping from 274,094 in 1990 to 346,772 in 2007” (Nation 201). These reported injuries include sprains and strains, broken bones, cracked ribs, torn ligaments, and concussions. A concussion usually happens when a player takes a hard hit to the head or is knocked unconscious on the playing field, and if not diagnosed and treated quickly, a concussion can result in death.
The Effects of Concussions on the NFL For many years the NFL has been considered one of the most painful and dangerous sport played in the United States. But is it too Dangerous? The uprising number of concussions is shocking. NFL analysts survives suggest a 14 percent increase of concussions for the year 2013. Player safety rules have also been implemented into the official rule book. The three main effects that concussions have on the NFL today are big hits, big plays, and the defensive game played today.
In the article “Should Kids Play Football” from the Scholastic Scope on February 2015, writer Jennifer Shotz discusses both issues of the benefits and dangers of playing American football. For example, Jennifer Shots mentioned that tens of thousands of young football players get concussions every year. She states that most players return to the game after they are healed but some never return because their concussion was too severe to their health. On the other hand, the writer also discusses how football isn't the only sport that encounters concussions. The rules of football are always changing and each new rule provides a safer way to play the game. For example, the writer notes that Pop Warner has reduced the amount of practice time dedicated
Every sport has its tricks and ways of doing things the right way. You can assure anyone that the sport their child is playing is safe, because there is always a stronger, bigger, faster player than them. Personally, I believe football is a demanding sport that requires a lot of strength, and stamina. If you read the article “Hard Knocks” by Alan Schwarz, it gives a brief story about a young football player. “The autopsy showed that his brain was in the early stage of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, more commonly known as C.T.E.” Many football players die from this condition.
...o be a major part of life; but the hopes are that many things about football are changed in order to make the sport safer for everyone.
Football is a relatively dangerous sport. In the game, the whole body is open to taking shots from opposing teams every play, but the most dangerous area to be hit is the head. Hits that lead to players having their heads
From the early ages in history to the present day, sports have always been an important part of society. It teaches discipline, how to be a team player, how to interact with others and is a good source of physical activity. In specific, football utilizes all of these aspects of sports and it’s a great source of teaching self-restraint and perseverance. Some may say that football is a violent sport or it’s not beneficial in any way, but in reality it gives a person the basic tools needed not only for playing the game, but also how you interact with people in society.
This summary is going to be about professional sports (football) and how it's risky. when it comes to sports you have 2 choices to go to fame and money or just quit. If I was in a situation like "should I play football even if I know there many risk or that should be safe than sorry? I might have to quit because just think abut all the danger you would have in your way you could get concussion which aren't good for your health. In my opinion playing professional sports is very dangerous and risky thing to do for your health. I think that it is risky because if you were to get tackled or hit very hard you could get a concussion. when your in professional sport, that sport could give you opportunities like fame and money (fortune), but to play that sport would also come risk. think if the player wants to play he/she should be able to play but they should understand the risk that come to being an athlete. If I were a football player I would probably walk out on those big opportunities because I don't ant anything to happen like getting a concussion.
My dream job in the future would be professional football player. I have loved the game of football since I was a little kid because it’s a good sport and you can tackle the player and catch and do anything in the sport as long as you follow the rules. The colleges that I’m looking forward to go to are UNC, Oregon, or Appalachian State.