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NFL Concussion Case The lawsuits made against the NFL are rising topics in today's mainstream media. The NFL is being accused of failing to provide information linking football related head injuries to permanent memory loss, brain damage, and other long term health issues related to concussions. Many former players have came forward who were diagnosed with some type of health issue, which were medically said to be caused by repeated blows to the head and concussions they have obtained throughout their professional football careers. Some even developing (CTE) Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy which is a neurodegenerative disease found in people who have had multiple head injuries. Therefore, NFL players who have suffered multiple brain injuries …show more content…

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and head officials have gotten together and came up with rules that will limit the number of head injuries and according to Jack Feder, “ In the next 4 years, you can expect a 17% drop in overall injuries”( “NFL Changes Rules for Safety” ). However, theses rules will prohibit players from doing certain actions, but still has to maintain the game's integrity. Some examples of some rules changes would be like when a player loses his helmet, the play is immediately whistled dead. These type of changes will prevent players from receiving unnecessary head injuries and prioritize their safety a little more while still keeping the rough and violent aspect of the …show more content…

Some may say that football is a sport where injuries are expected and whoever decides to play the sport needs to take that into consideration.Physicality is all part of the game. I don't think you can take away all the contact and forcible head hits out of this game. Many players and former players accept that. While we all love safety, at some point football has got to be football. This explains how some of these rule changes take away the main aspect of football. Football is a physical and barbaric sport that these men are playing. And limiting them from what they can and can’t do takes that away. This does not defeat the fact that the NFL still needs to protect and attempt to prevent their players from receiving any types of brain injuries. But the changing of rules and regulations seems to be too much and changes the way football is played in a negative

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Even though the National Football league under Goodell 's leadership has maintained steady viewership growth and profit, Roger Goodell has handled the concussion epidemic of the NFL extremely poorly, in addition to handling the constant ethics issues with little regard. In the many instances of concussions in the NFL Goodell has given inadequate punishment to guilty parties. In addition, Roger Goodell has also handled the "Deflategate" scandal poorly by suspending Tom Brady, even after no solid evidence of wrongdoing. In recent years it has been discovered that American Football has a reampint concussion epidemic, that has caused long term brain damage. Goodell on several occasions has only punished players who take headshots, with fines ranging from $50,000 to $150,000 (according to ESPN), issued to multi-millionaire players, This policy gives no incentive for players to stop, for example player for the Miami Dolphins Matt Moore’s concussion.

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The NFL should research more on CTE and discover ways to prevent it. One way could be providing safety gear that could protect the players from concussions, which is a major cause of CTE. The NFL should also accept that there is a connection between playing football and getting CTE. Our brains are not genetically engineered to sustain an impact on our cranium, so players who suffer a concussion in a game should not be let back into the game until proper treatment is provided. Until this happens we cannot trust the NFL on anything

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Generally people think that the NFL should adjust the game, and its rules to increase player safety, statistics clearly show that too much adjusting has been done and the NFL is suffering because of it. Too many rules have been changed for player safety and the current changes being discussed, like getting rid of the kickoff, are going to far and the game is not like it was. Players sign contracts and are aware of the risks they put themselves at when playing the game of football at a professional level. Referees are throwing more flags and the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, is handing out a record high of fines. These adjustments by the National Football League are going too far and some rule changes need to be reverted back to their previous rules.

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