Violence In Football

Everybody loves to watch football. It is a large part of the American culture. 64% of Americans watch and enjoy football every Sunday according to gallup.com. But everyone seems to leave out the ugly truth of the whole sport; the violence. Football is said to be the 3rd most violent sport in the world, right behind hockey and rugby, according to reference.com. The difference between football and those two sports is how many people play them. About 6 and a half million people play hockey and rugby worldwide COMBINED according to hockeyworld.com and rugbynation.com. Football on the other hand, has over 264 million worldwide. The significant difference in size is a massive factor, because the amount of injuries is a substantial amount larger than
Former Chicago Bears defensive back Dave Duerson committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest. Discovery of a disease--believed to be caused by repeated head trauma--that he named chronic traumatic encephalopathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iAeY37yN0E (CTE). A "minor concussion" led to the early retirement in March of Chris Borland who, at age 24, told his NFL team he was retiring because he feared the long-term effects of head trauma. Concussions happen when your brain hits your skull do to whiplash from the neck. When the brain hits the skull it can either puncture part of your brain or bruise the outside of
This game should be played out of skill and talent, not anger and hate towards other teams and players. You shouldn’t want to hurt someone just because they are better than you at something. This game used to be innocent and just played to pass the time; but now look at it. It has been found that coaches tell their players to intentionally hurt another player. They think that it will help their team win the football game. The coaches don't realize that the actions could be brought outside of the game. It should not be encouraged to do. Vontaze Burfict is a perfect example of a player taking cheap shots on players and trying to intentionally hurt them. An example of him trying to hurt someone intentionally is when he hit Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown in the head after he clearly missed the catch and was grounded. Vontaze Burfict was suspended for 3 games after the hit to Antonio Brown. Now, think about it, do you think that only the player should be penalized, or should the coach to for teaching them these tactics. It is not healthy nor good for the reputation of the player or team. The NFL doesn’t penalize like it should for illegal hits just to the players can come back and do it again to a different player. They aren’t learning their lesson on purpose. They aren’t learning from their actions like they should. Everybody just wants