We all know that when you play a full contact sport you run the risk of getting injured. Well football is definitely a full contact sport and many players are prone to concussions. As you get older and stay in sports they usually get more intense, a great example of that is the NFL! The National Football League, the NFL has had many run ins with their players and them getting head injuries or concussions. On March 11 they announced that $60 million will go towards leading neurologists to speed up research into brain injuries and the development of new technologies to help protect the brain from all sorts of trauma. Many lawsuits have been filed against the NFL which accuses the league of covering up life altering brain injuries.
A study released in 2010 shows that emergency rooms yearly treat 173,000 temporary brain injuries including concussions that are all related to sports including Football in people under the age of only 19. It has been shown in many cases that after the players have received a head injury or a concussion that there out of Football lives have changed drastically, some have committed very, very tragic felonies and broken many laws or even injured themselves or their loved ones.
People discus how the league could donate $1 million or more to the Center for the Study of Traumatic head injuries at Boston University, whose discoveries of brain damage commonly associated with in the brains of deceased football players they can obviously see the trace of brain damage. NFL players are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or similar medical conditions more than the national population, which also points to the fact that playing full contact sports or specifically the NFL causes the chances of getting brain trauma. All of us love Football, but we would all love it more if the players were safer, and the players would obviously be more eager to go out and play 100% and not be worried about getting a head injury.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/11/us-nfl-concussion-idUSBRE92A0UT20130311
http://nflconcussionlitigation.com/?page_id=187
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/sports/pro/football&id=9023412