Why Football Is Dangerous

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Football has been well known to be a dangerous sport for all of its existence. It is a controversial topic that football is to dangerous, or is it? So many people have gotten short term or temporary injuries while playing football because there's so much harsh contact on the field. It raises flags about if the sport needs more safety asserted for it or is the sport fine. Personally I believe that football is fine the way it is. From when football started there was almost no safety regulations and all they played with was leather helmets and minimum padding. Now when you get tackled the wrong way or there's an injury on the field. There are many sideline precaution they have to take. They evolved over the decades of football so much that some football stars are backlashing on the fact that there is too much precaution and that if they don't want to get tackled when it is a heavy contact sport, that the people that need more safety should go play flag football. Which I somewhat agree, because when you are signing up for the NFL, you should know that it is going to be a heavily contacted sport and that you should be aware what you are getting yourself into. …show more content…

I never thought that there should of been more safety precautions. Sometimes a play happens and you get hit the right way and an injury can occur. Every sport that people play have some type of precautions to the sport, and theres always a little bit of debate that it could always be