Whaley Comments On Violence In Football Summary

In “Bills GM Doug Whaley Comments on Violence in Football, injuries and more” by Tyler Conway they speak about the comment that the Bills GM made on a radio show yesterday. Yesterday the Bills general manager Doug Whaley appeared on a radio show and when asked about one of his players had some interesting comments “This is the game of football,” he said, “Injuries are apart of it. It’s a violent game that I personally don’t think humans are supposed to play.” This is a very interesting comment from a person who has made a career and millions of dollars off of the game. The tone of the article is that it was a bad decision made by Mr. Whaley, because the NFL will not be happy about a comment that hurts their campaign the football is safe.
These comments came at an especially bad time because the NFL is fighting allegations that they tried to bribe the National Institute of Health during their investigation into head traumas in football. This statement made by Mr.
Whaley aren’t necessarily in bad taste because according to the poll on the bleacher report website 76.6% of people agree with him. But there is one major difference between the people who agree with him and Mr. Whaley himself. I bet that those other people didn’t make millions of the game, and they didn’t spend their entire life playing and coaching. That right there is what makes the comments bad because it make him look bad along with the rest of the league. It makes it sound like the NFL is forcing its players to do something unnatural and extorting them to get rich and for people’s entertainment. Which comes at a horrible time because of the allegations that the NFL are fighting. I mean could you imagine if a scientist made millions from genetics and then came out and said I don’t think human were meant to mess with genes. Everyone would be up and arms about it. Well this is pretty much the same thing. You can’t spend most of you life doing something say it’s something humans shouldn’t do and then continue to do it. That’s hypocritical and not morally correct. Is the game starting to get dangerous do to the evolution of humans to become bigger and stronger; yes, but this doesn’t mean that humans shouldn’t play it. It just means the there needs to be better equipment and more measures in place to insure that they are safe. The game hasn’t even necessarily become more dangerous. Are there more injuries; yes, but we are also more
aware about injuries too. We have better technology to be able to determine injuries and because of new rule trainers are required to keep players off the field until they know it will be safe for them. Concussions are a relatively new diagnosed injury; that has only come up in the past couple of decades. Most people who played before concussions were known about probably sustained them, but they just didn’t stop playing because they wouldn’t have known the seriousness of it. Now that we know about them they test for them more and find them more often.