LITERATURE REVIEW It may only take a couple of seconds for a college football player’s career or season to be taken away from him. Hundreds of college football players get hurt every year; most are sidelined for just a couple of weeks. Some players‚ however‚ lose their entire season and even careers to just one injury. When a player is not able to play the entire season‚ they may lose their scholarship. Standing on a football field’s sideline with an injury is one of the worst feelings a player
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Since the 1920’s‚ professional football‚ basketball‚ baseball‚ have become much more popular in the United States‚ however they have not yet been able to rival college footballs popularity in terms of attendance and revenue. One indicator of college football still being the most popular sport in the United States is game attendance. Some college football programs regularly have more than 100‚000 fans in attendance. In fact‚ in 2011 a regular season game between The University of Michigan and Notre
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Do you know any sports? If you know sports‚ you probably know soccer and football. They are two very different sports. Also people may say football instead of soccer because the rest of the world calls soccer football. Football and soccer are both some of the most popular sports. There is a lot of things that are the same in these two sports‚ like they both have to be played on a field not a court or a rink. In both sports you win by having the most points‚ unlike golf. They also both have 11 players
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Football is not the oldest collective sport but the most played in the world. In most of the countries‚ the part of the football budget in the sport one is the highest. Football is also the most televised sport in the world‚ thanks to sponsoring. It’s a money maker for a lot of people involved. Football players (at a high professional level) receive the highest salaries in the sport world. Rugby is also a noble and old collective sport. Rugby is above all a dangerous one. However rugby men don’t
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MORGANTOWN‚ W.Va.--Strength and conditioning is an aspect of sports‚ especially football‚ that people often overlook. If teams aren’t properly conditioned it could spell trouble when the pads come one. That is what the West Virginia University football team is focused on this summer. For the Mountaineers’ speedy style of play conditioning is detrimental when it comes game time. "We’re a fast paced offense‚" senior wide receiver Shelton Gibson said. "We go and we go and we go. The better we can
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dangers of football‚ the NFL is starting to get a bad reputation. This issue not only affects the players and families‚ but communities and other profit-making companies as well. As the risks of playing football have been magnified in the media recently‚ it is important to look at not only these risks‚ but the benefits of this multi-billion dollar sport. It seems as if every time the TV is turned on a new ex-football player is seen suing the NFL due to concussions. It is a fact that football players
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modifying equipment to try to prevent concussions. This could backfire and change the game permanently. Holding players back from being able to play to the best of their ability. Football is the number one sport in North America‚ changing the game we know today could lead to a decline in popularity for the sport. Football players know the risks to their health and thus should be allowed to play the sport without any additional rules or equipment modifications. First‚ what is a concussion? “A concussion
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9th st adventures It all started at ninth street with some friends of mine John and I started recruiting some people to come play football with us. I honestly didn’t know I had a pretty decent arm. I originally was going to start practicing to play wide receiver instead of quarterback. At the time Odell Beckham Jr. ( wide receiver for the New York Giants ) was extremely explosive and dynamic on offense. Seeing him blow up on offense made me want to try out for wide receiver. But somehow John convinced
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The National Football League has a bigger problem on their hands that go beyond the gridiron. Concussions in football leads to greater health risks later in life‚ because of the trauma that is put towards the head area which leads to more serious head injuries. According to Simon Flynn‚ Andre Waters‚ who was a former player in the National Football League‚ and who died at age of only forty-four had a brain of an eighty-five-year-old. If more preventions were in place in football then Water’s’
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Professional football that we know today is much different than it was when the game was still being completed in the United States many decades ago. Pro football officially began when the National Football League was founded on August 20‚ 1920‚ in Canton‚ Ohio by seven men‚ Jim Thorpe being the most well known of the seven. For a couple decades‚ the NFL was the only professional football league but then in July of 1959 another league came to be. This new league became known as the American
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