Should A Player's Helmet Rules Be Banned?

Have you ever been watching a college or NFL football game and see a player’s helmet fall off, but continue to play? The National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA, has since invented two rules to prevent players from continuing a play once their helmets have fallen off due to concerned viewers and team’s staff. While many were concerned about the safety of the players and their chance of receiving traumatic brain injury from head to head or any head to object contact, others believe the rule should be modified or completely taken out of the rule book. Most incidents that cause a player’s helmet to fall off are due to helmets not being tight enough, the wrong size or shape. Viewers and even NFL spokesman say that helmets flying off of

From personal experience of viewing football at the high school level, whenever there has been a collision so strong that has caused the player’s helmet to fall off from impact I have never seen the athlete or coach to instruct them off of the field to check the helmet for its fit or evaluate the player for a concussion. Bleacher Report's Michael Felder believes that the rules implemented in college and NFL football are ruining the game. Felder says in his article How College Football’s New Helmet Rule is Hurting the Game for All that the new rule is hurting football because instead of getting to the root of the problem coaches and trainers will automatically turn to tightening the helmet than figuring out how the player’s helmet should be changed in order for it to stay on., Felder says, “When that helmet is too tight, you're compromising its ability to distribute impact and for the interior to move with the head as it is designed.” While Felder has a valid point that the rule will be causing more issues than helping figure out the root of the problem, the NCAA and NFL will need to enforce and follow through with the precautionary measures of following up with the athletes when their helmets come off. If those cautionary rules were being followed properly then these rules would not have needed to be

CNN stated in an article about concussions in the NFL, NFL Concussions Fast Facts, that in 2012 there was the second highest amount of concussions recorded during the pre-season/season time period at 261 concussions compared to 275 concussions in 2015. Parents and athletes starting at the youth and high school level must be aware of the helmet issues in order to properly know what will work best for their athlete and be prepared to teach their child how to properly get a helmet fitted and adjusted so that it fits their shape and size in order to prevent further