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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take part in football or basketball in the United States. This is a big number of people participating. It is a great way to stay active. I am going to compare the two sports to each other. Obviously they are different but there are some similarities. I will talk about being active‚ being on a team‚ and how they are played. Being active is in both of these sports. They require a lot of energy. Basketball is a smaller playing area meaning the court is obviously smaller than a football field but in
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Football is by far the main sport played and watched in the United States‚ and it is becoming more popular around the world. The history of the game dates all the way back to the eighteen hundred‚ with people who did not wear any equipment‚ to present day‚ having a thousand or more dollars of gear rigged onto their body. A lot of people are fans of a team or just fans of the game but many people do not know how much the game has evolved from such a simple and aggressive sport to a complex game that
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sport is the most popular to watch and exciting to play? The answer is undoubtedly is football. And the best position to play is the running back. The running back is one of the most important positions on a football team‚ and it can be the toughest position to play--mentally and physically. The running back has various duties on the field‚ and he has to excel in all of them. This position handles the football more than any other position on the field except for the position of quarterback. Whether
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Similar to other sports football playing has unhealthy long term repercussions like Alzheimer’s and memory loss. It would be extremely unknowledgeble to believe that a contact sport like football that has been professionally played by athletes for just over 90 years‚ would not lead to mental problems. The idea of destroying the game of football seems impossible due to to the millions who enjoy the game and the individuals who have made careers out of not only participating in the activity
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mouthpiece from becoming deformed. The mouthpiece must have a fitted bite position to enable it to prevent the extra force to the jaw. The stats prove that a change needs to be made with the concussion protocol at all levels of football. They are very startling: “One in 30 football players ages 5 to 14 will sustain one concussion per season. One in 14 high school players will get a concussion. One in 20 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) players will get a concussion. The total number of
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stubbornly stays the same; its love of football. Every year‚ crowds of fans never fail to pack into the stadiums and cheer for their favorite teams. However‚ some once loyal followers of the game are beginning to have doubts about this entertaining‚ yet violent sport. Recent studies show an increase in dementia‚ Alzheimer’s‚ and C.T.E. in football players of every level‚ from junior high school to N.F.L. teams. Because of the violence and injuries surrounding football‚ this sport has become too dangerous
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Football is a physically demanding sport that requires not only strength‚ but great coaching tactics as well. When a person signs up for football‚ no matter what age they know the risks of being injured. But even knowing the risks will not prevent them from occurring‚ the injury that is frequently worried about is a concussion. A concussion is when temporary unconsciousness caused by a blow to the head. Football players take repeated blows to the head so a concussion is very common in this sport
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Collegiate football is a rapidly growing business that influences culture‚ participants and spectators. The role of National College Athletic Association (NCAA) is to ensure that all teams follow the instructions of the game and hold high standards of established moral and ethical code of conduct and ethics. NCCA failed to prevent the scandals at the University of Arkansas‚ Ohio State‚ and Penn State (Ferrell & Fraedrich‚ 2016). In Penn state‚ NCAA failed to protect the interest of all the stakeholders
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comes to their official visits on campus. But in reality the decision process is a tough decision for a high school senior to make. The opportunity to play football at the collegiate level is very limited. Only 6% of high school seniors will play football in college. With that being said only 1.7 percent of those who make it to college football will play in the NFL. So at the age of 17 or 18 these young men are faced with a very tough decision that
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