There are few people in today’s world that choose a profession with many risks to their well-being. These jobs come with huge responsibilities, life threatening risks, but also life changing rewards. Police officers and firefighters put their lives on the line every day to keep the people of the world safe. Soldiers in the military also give up their lives to fight for our country knowing that they could lose their lives to protect others. These men and women know the risks of their fields and still choose them as their professions because they love what they do and want to make the world a better place. Football players are another example of people who have a job that could seriously affect them physically and mentally. Getting hit the wrong …show more content…
They grow up playing a sport that they love and are fully aware that there future is on the line. The few that become professionals are paid high amounts of money to play because of their superior skill set. There are a lot of injuries that come with playing the game and most players have gone through some sort of injury at one point in their career. Injuries are an unfortunate part of the game but the sport shouldn’t be banned because of recent serious injuries to professional and young players. Football players know the risks to their health and thus should be allowed to play the sport without any additional rules or equipment modifications. Football is a sport with constant collisions, hard hits and exciting plays. A game where the toughest players and teams separate themselves from the rest. Every player from the professional level down to youth leagues knows that you have to be tough to be a successful player. The game comes with injuries, some more serious than others because of the intensity and hard hits from every player. Playing football comes with the knowledge of possible injury and every player knows what their getting into. Early in the 2013 NFL season, many former and current …show more content…
The NFL for example has a system set up that helps active and non-active players recover from injuries and gives them benefits. In an article about helping injured pro players, former pro Junior Seau, talked about the leagues help after his career was over. He was asked about what the league did for his injuries, Seau said, “From a benefits standpoint, they’ve created a bunch of stuff on the players side for retired players, as far as neurocognitive studies and research, where it costs you nothing to go see these specialists” (Crow). The NFL gives there players not only a free, but effective way to treat different sorts of injuries that they may get along their careers. Players have resources to handle their particular injuries with professionals that can help make their careers as long as possible. Injuries are still a serious part of the game but with help from the league and doctors the players can still play without having to ban the game. The NFL also created the NFL Players Care Foundation, an organization helping retired players adjust to life after their careers and dealing with long term injuries. The organization’s goal in helping players is stated on their website saying, “The NFL Player Care Foundation (PCF) is an independent organization dedicated to helping retired players improve their quality of life. PCF addresses all
Topic: The NFL injury report was initially made to make information about player’s injuries available to the public. This was meant to discourage gamblers from getting close to players for the sole purpose of gaining inside information. This decision ultimately protected the players from getting involved in gambling but also added new issues. There are many inaccuracies found in the NFL injury report. By letting the public know which players are hurt and where they are hurt, opposing teams are using this to their advantage. As predicted, coaches are going to try to obscure their player’s health to mess with their opponents game plan, while at the same time still following the guidelines of the NFL injury report regulat...
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...
The brute force of the game is what draws millions of people around to the world to come and watch. However, what millions of Americans don't see if the consequences of what makes the game how great it is today, the hits. With players getting bigger faster and stronger it only leaves players in more danger of getting injured. Concussions are one of the most common injuries among NFL players mainly because of the constant contact, and how the design of the helmet is to protect against major head injuries, not concussions. CTE is common in many NFL players, and most former NFL players. A study by the national institute for Occupational safety and health found that, “the brain tissue of 59 of 62 deceased former NFL players tested positive for CTE” also when studying, “the causes of death of 3,439 former NFL players concluded they were three times as likely as the general population to die from degenerative brain diseases,such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's”(Karaim). However there has been remarkable facts on how CTE has been found in NFL players more commonly than any other sport the NFL refuses to acknowledge that there is any correlation between player who played professional football and CTE. Because of this direct correlation of football and CTE many players are unable to work of fully function after their career as a professional
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.
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.
After watching the film Big Hits, Broken Dreams and hearing all the great points that Dr. Sanjay Gupta made I am truly astonished by the things I have seen and heard. As every high school and college athlete knows, there are many great benefits to playing all sports. Whether you are looking for a “full ride” to college, or even a career in the professional league, there are many excellently successful roads for an athlete. With that said, I still believe safety comes first. No matter how much money can be put into something, it wont matter if your dead in the end. There are so many possible chances of getting an injury whether it may be temporary or permanent. Many sport injuries, especially those of football can be deadly. Using an example from the film, Jaquan was just a 16 year old boy with dreams of playing football forever. He was a great athlete, and seemed to have always known what he was doing. The difference here is that Jaquan was not in the control of his own injury. He hadn’t been seen by a doctor the first time, and if he had he may have been saved from dying the next time. On the other hand, the other young man featured in this film named Gray was uninformed of the damage he already had to his brain before his collision, and if his family did know about it I’m sure he wouldn’t have still been playing. Therefore, I strongly believe that athletic risks outweigh the benefits that athletes will get from playing sports in the first place.
Football is a game of adversity and emotion. People who have not played a sport or follow one closely don’t understand the emotion behind game. They think that football is just a game, but for those who are involved with the team don’t think so. All those horrendous hours of countless preparation are for something players and coaches love. About a few years ago, a football player at the collegiate level was told that he wouldn’t be able to play another down of football again due to his banged up h...
From long practice hours, hot summer workouts, and many Friday nights, my personal observation of this dangerous sport is exceptionally prevalent. My initial experience of the damage that football brings came my eighth grade year when I witnessed a senior football player on my team try and eat a phone on the ride home after receiving a concussion in the third quarter of the game. Which is a prime example to defend the fact that football related injuries to the head result in people not “being all there.” Not only have I seen someone try and eat a phone, but I have also witnessed head injuries resulting in my own friend randomly yelling at me after a game for no reason, and also a friend trying to jump down a full flight of stairs thinking he was starring in a movie. The fast paced, high intensity contact that comes with playing football is nothing to think flippantly of when it plays a role on brain trauma, and the results of brain trauma.
One of the main reasons student athletes who could go pro don’t stay for four years is because when they are in college they are living off of basically nothing. If you add money which they deserve into the equation, it might make them want stay for a couple more years and maybe even wait to go pro so that they can earn their degree. There is a similar rule in the NFL. The NFL has a rule that you must be three years out of high school to enter the NFL draft. This creates even bigger issues for the student athletes. Football being a more physical sport makes the risk even larger for the student athlete. “They work long hours, report to an unusually demanding boss and risk significant bodily harm in bringing glory to their institutions. And yet the result of all this is not a paycheck, but a bill” (“At Risk”).
The topic I will be discussing in this draft is the debate on whether the National Football League should be held liable for injuries that their employee’s sustained while playing professional football. The injuries that I will discuss are concussion and traumatic brain injuries related to multiple concussions. In years past this injury wasn’t know n to be as prevalent because that game was played at a much slower speed. Players in todays’ game are bigger, faster and stronger than ever. It has been documented that the players themselves willingly know the risk they are taking yet still take the chance at playing the game. Players and player group representatives are now seeking compensation for their player and player’s families. Should the NFL be held liable or should the employee who already knows the risk take full responsibility? Because of this controversy the NFL has recently come under fire due to game related head injuries to active players which cause long lasting effects. In addition family members seek compensation to former player deaths due to these injuries.
can lead to long term brain damage and even death after a player’s career. Many feel that the
Many major cities generate hundreds of millions of dollars per year in revenue from ticket and merchandise sales from the marketability and popularity of their professional athletes. These athletes play for teams hundreds, even thousands of miles away from their homes and families in hopes of winning a championship. They spend weeks on end away from parents, wives, and children. These athletes endure injuries far beyond what the average person would. The most healthy, fit, and talented athletes are considered lucky if the can play past 35 years of age. Professional athletes take such physical abuse, many have to retire because one more blow could mean death. You can't put a price on life.
They put their bodies on the line so their team does good.Just in D1 football 8.1 out of 1000 athletes get hurt.Its not alot but there are more sports so there are more injuries.Some people get hurt and can't play sports for a long time or the rest of their life.How would you feel if your family member got hurt and got paralyzed or could not walk.Second The athletes take a chance to get hurt and
At the end every sport has its risks and the athlete is well aware of them and know what their getting themselves into. As the athlete they are they should take proper care of themselves when they suffer from a concussion or any injury no matter how small or big it is. Being well aware of themselves will help them to prevent long term effects. Do to the sports industry taking action, they now have more sturdy equipment for athletes to be safe. For example, football players have extra padding in their helmets to prevent severe hits to the head. If an athlete is diagnosed with ALS or CTE they should get help from their team. They should get money to pay for their necessities even if they don’t
However, it’s in the type of injuries that tend to occur that basketball and football are very different. If someone looked at most of those injuries in basketball, they could see that most of them are not brain injuries, but rather are more than likely broken bones or a sprains. These injuries are nothing compared to the brain trama a player can get from playing football. In football, there have been great players who have retired because the game has gotten too dangerous for them. These men have families they have to support, and if they are relying on football to do so and they get a brain injury they could be seriously hurt or even paralyzed and then all of a sudden they can not support their families anymore so there goes there funds to support them. For instance, Patrick Willis was an extraordinary player who retired because he did not want to risk getting injured playing football. He played football professionally for eight years, playing great when he retired, he was at the top of his game but he chose to to retire, all because the NFL concussion protocol was not strict enough and he didn’t wanna take the chance of getting seriously hurt. “I was drafted number 11 when somebody said I wasn't a top linebacker I felt like I had something to give back. That's why I do the way I go, practice the way I practice, treat people the way I treat them I am so humbled,” This was a quote from Patrick Willis’ retirement speech, when I watched the video of his retirement press conference and I heard him say this, it was honestly saddening to hear this come from him because he was still a great player when he