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Professional Football Violence: A Case Study

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What are the causes and effects of violence in the NFL? Professional football is a very pressuring career. Jovan Belcher, who killed his girlfriend and then killed himself was evidently very mentally ill, maybe because of the NFL or because of something else. Adrian Peterson was charged with abusing his son in 2014. The cause of this could be from lack of parenting or inherited disciplines from his parents.
Jovan Belcher died in a murder-suicide, murdering his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, before driving to the Chiefs' training facility and shooting himself in the head with a handgun. In Belcher’s case, mental health played a huge role in what he did. In professional football, and almost every other professional sport, there’s pressure to be and do your very best. From there, it just seems to be a downward spiral from there. Stress leads to anxiety which often leads to depression. In Belcher’s last words, “I need help! I wasn’t able to get enough help,” (Par. 4) it’s very evident that he had some mental health problems. It’s also said that if Belcher did not own any guns, he or Kasandra would not have died. In …show more content…

There is controversy that this case could even be considered a case of child abuse. Parents often parent their kids they way their parents raised them, but a lot of the forms of discipline from their childhood would be looked down upon today. Peterson could have just been disciplining his son like his parents did him. Adrian Peterson is only one of a handful of NFL players involved in domestic violence cases(pg. 2 par. 2), so what caused all of these cases? The cause can’t really be pinpointed because child abuse, and any domestic violence, has lots of causes, and all of these cases are unique. Since NFL players are rarely home because of football, it could have been due to lack of support and being under immense pressure from the

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