Reasons Why Football Is Dangerous

The topic I'll be addressing for my proposal essay is "If football is so dangerous to players, should we be watching it?". I have read multiple articles, seen documentaries and have even watched the movie, Concussion, starring Will Smith, about how dangerous football is and how the players are almost risking their lives to entertain Americans. The most common, and newest, disease is CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy. It’s the result of multiple concussions, causing the players to go mad and eventually they’ll commit suicide because they feel like they’re going insane. CTE cannot be diagnosed until after death either. There are already 25 deaths due to CTE and every year a new death arises.

Football is a dangerous because people lose there memery. People also get broken bones. Football is also dangerous because people die.

“There are between an estimated 1.6 and 3.8 million sports-related concussions in the United States every year”(“Statistics”) Concussions can lead to death or permanent injury. A concussion is a brain injury that causes long term brain damage. Some football players will hide injuries, so that they can continue to play the game. Rules have been changed to protect the players health, for example if a player is suspected of have a concussion they are not permitted to play without getting checked out. Football concussions have a long lasting effect on physical and mental health. Concussions also affect how the game is played and regulated.

An investigation published a year ago by the New York Times discovered that concussion research from the National Football League (NFL) was left incomplete almost to the point of being misleading. The Times also reported, data that the NFL used in 13 peer-reviewed articles, that supported the

The safety of young football players for years has been a long growing concern and controversy for parents, players, high school coaches and school officials, and as well as NFL coaches and medical professionals in America. Parents worry about their children getting injured or concussions during the game. Furthermore, many parents believe that football can be safer and that the organization of football is not doing enough to protect players and their safety. However, to some football players concussions are not a big issue. Some players are too worried about their playing time to realize the consequences of getting concussions repeatedly. Therefore, some football players do not tell the coaches about their concussions. In addition, coaches also have a problem with the safety of football affecting their programs. Some coaches fear that football programs will shut down because of the controversy of how football can lead to brain damage. Besides parents, players, and coaches, doctors have a big say in the controversy. Neurologists, who are specialists in the disorders of nerves and the nervous system, have recently studied the link between football and brain damage. According to Jacob Vanlandingham, who is the founder and president of Prevacus Incorporated, a company who primarily studies concussions, said that “Doctors diagnose approximately 67,000 concussions in high school football players every year” (Vanlandingham, p.1). Nevertheless, some stakeholders, including ex-football players, believe that everything has already been done to make football as safe as possible. Football organizations have made new rules and placed new programs in order to keep young players healthy and to keep football programs from shutting down. The big controversial question that all stakeholders are asking is, “Is football doing enough to protect young children?”

As I said, football players risk injury, “ Football players are nearly seven times more likely to be injured during a game than in practice”(Burris 1). Some of the injuries they may fall to are concussions. It is known that “Concussions make up 7.4 percent of all injuries in college football players” (Burris 1). Many of the football injuries can affect their lives forever. “The athletes also reported more limitations in daily activities and more major and chronic injuries” (Burris 1).

The research to date indicates that 300,000 sports related concussions occur each year.1 It is estimated in a recent review that as many as 3.8

Have you ever speculated how football affects its players? Well these are some of the fascinating things that I discovered. There is a very dangerous disease that many pro football athletes develop called CTE that can be contributed to countless deaths of NFL players. There is also a problem with the helmets in the NFL that inventors/players are trying to solve. The head trauma issue in the NFL is generating many complications and resulting problems, including the CTE matter, head to head hits, and the ongoing helmet issue.

Sports concussions are a type of traumatic brain injury (TBI) that can have long-term neurologic sequelae. Sports concussions have an estimated incidence of 3.8 million per year in the U.S. which represents a significant public health issue[2]. Approximately 50% of sports concussions may be unreported. As such, the public health implications of sports concussions are significantly underestimated. Sports concussions may occur from any sport and are more common in high impact contact sports such as ice hockey, American football, boxing and soccer[3].

It gets blurry hard to breathe and the lighting gets dim. Football is very dangerous. In the sources "Weighing the Risks", and "The Professionals Point of View" give great reasons why football is to risky to play. Football is to risky to play because it's too dangerous, high rate of catching disease, and it can cause a concussion. To begin with, football can ruin one's life.

Football is the biggest sport in America, but even though the NFL makes billions of dollars they lack in some very important areas. is Lack of safety regulations on the field can have lifetime of effects on the players. As …. Said in his essay What Price Football, “Worry less about new rules ‘running’ the game and more about the lives that have been ruined by the game, thanks to the effects of dementia, depression, and suicides related to brain trauma” (...,...). According to …., brain trauma has a long list of unwanted side effects that can affect the quality of a player's life and even could be extreme enough to have a player end his/her life. Brain trauma plagues football in all levels of the game

What is wrong with football? It is written in the pain on Greg Hadley 's face. The senior from Colgate University, a two-time all-conference linebacker on the school 's football team, is sitting in a Bedford, Massachusetts laboratory staring at shattered brains of dead football players (cite). Imagine a child on that football field and after that one devastating hit that made the crowd gasp in shock imagine that child being unable to get up. There are parents who had actually been through something as scary as their kids dying on the field. For as long as football has been a sport it has always had too many injuries inflicted on the players such as concussions, torn ligaments, twisted ankles, and popped out joints. The players can also suffer from the long term damages such as Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, dementia, and Parkinson 's Disease. Not only is it in professional football, it has also been in High School football, where young players are getting injured or dying, broken necks, and lacerated spleens. Football is dangerous because it causes too many injuries, long term damages, and young players are getting hurt or dying.

I’m still deciding if football is truly dangerous due to the story of the young man dying of a brain disease that caused over time due to long-term head collision(the Hard knocks page), got me worried, and the thing is he showed no concussion issues when playing from a child to an adult and this can be an issue as young athletes can show no sign of an injury to the head or pain coming from within his/her brain so they can run the chance of dying, from an interior part of their skull just because they showed no pain when it was developing(the pain), and I’m not going to use their “take one for the team” example as it is irrelevant to those coaches who actually care about their players when they have taken enough pain or damage from a game, anyway if a player does not get themselves checked for the disease then they can lose their life by playing something that they love doing, this disease I mention is called CTE the article also mentions that some NFL players have died from it and this young man has died from it but the odd thing is that he showed no pain or damage to his head and also showed no emotional issues the mother didn’t mention.

Is football a dangerous sport? If so should we watch it? I believe we should be watching it for many reasons. Football is America’s sport and over 20 million people watch the sport, and over millions of companies put out there ads to be watched. Most all the people are entertained by their home teams making it to the annual super bowl.

Sports are exciting but can be very dangers. We can use football as one example. A good quality about football is you work as a team, which can teach social skills, following directions, patience, etc. Some bad things about football are things such as, serious injuries to both head and body, pressure to win the games, stress, etc.