Essay On Football Safety
Is it Safe?
The sport of football is yes, great, but now becoming more dangerous. A topic that really skyrocketed since the 2000’s is should we let kids play football? Or anyone period? These questions really began to become a big deal when the constant bad news of concussions with the sport around the country began to rise at a rapid rate. Not only does the sport put your head at risk, but also the rest of your body. There are laws on many things in this nation, but for putting the most important thing on your body and what makes us human beings at risk, everyday at practice, in games, there just isn’t a law on that quite yet. A law for the future looks bright. There is no right time to start the sport of football. The chances of going somewhere …show more content…
Injuries happen constantly in this sport at every level, your body is constantly being put at risk. Not only are there tears and broken bones plus many other injuries, there are concussions. It takes 60 g’s of force move the brain inside your head, or to get a concussion. A average football hit is 100 g’s, this proving many many hits in football are considered concussion worthy. Possibly the worst life threatening of them all, CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) has been a recent discovery in not just football but with all things that give a person constant blows to the head. “Research conducted on almost 100 deceased NFL players revealed that over 95 percent of them tested positive for the degenerative brain disease known as CTE” (Breech). The first known death of a football player from CTE was in 2004, but it is thought many other deaths in the past have come from this disease. The technology was just great enough to prove this. It is very hard as humans to give up something we truly love, millions love, but when putting others lives constantly in danger it is something that needs to be brought up and argued
The sport of football is yes, great, but now becoming more dangerous. A topic that really skyrocketed since the 2000’s is should we let kids play football? Or anyone period? These questions really began to become a big deal when the constant bad news of concussions with the sport around the country began to rise at a rapid rate. Not only does the sport put your head at risk, but also the rest of your body. There are laws on many things in this nation, but for putting the most important thing on your body and what makes us human beings at risk, everyday at practice, in games, there just isn’t a law on that quite yet. A law for the future looks bright. There is no right time to start the sport of football. The chances of going somewhere …show more content…
Injuries happen constantly in this sport at every level, your body is constantly being put at risk. Not only are there tears and broken bones plus many other injuries, there are concussions. It takes 60 g’s of force move the brain inside your head, or to get a concussion. A average football hit is 100 g’s, this proving many many hits in football are considered concussion worthy. Possibly the worst life threatening of them all, CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) has been a recent discovery in not just football but with all things that give a person constant blows to the head. “Research conducted on almost 100 deceased NFL players revealed that over 95 percent of them tested positive for the degenerative brain disease known as CTE” (Breech). The first known death of a football player from CTE was in 2004, but it is thought many other deaths in the past have come from this disease. The technology was just great enough to prove this. It is very hard as humans to give up something we truly love, millions love, but when putting others lives constantly in danger it is something that needs to be brought up and argued