The Effects Of Shawne Merriman In The NFL

Among the terms of the agreement is that the settlement is not to be regarded as an admission of guilt by the league." The NFL knows of the dangers the players are in. The rules change but the equipment increased. Without more or better equipment the players are still in danger. In a PBS Frontline documentary about injuries in football Dr. Robert Stern said," In football, one has to expect that, almost every play of every game and every practice, they're going to be hitting their heads against each other. That's the nature of the game. Those things seem to happen around 1,000 to 1,500 times a year. Each time that happens, it's around 20 g or more. That's the equivalent of driving a car at 35 miles per hour into a brick wall." The players in the NFL know the risk of playing but it is up to the NFL to make the sport safe for the players. Many people may argue that since the players know the risk and they are paid for their athletic performance is ok. However you cannot put a price on a person health. There is no way of rationalizing the behavior of the NFL. Yes, the athletes are paid to perform, but it is up to the NFL to make the sport safer. The NBA has increase rules and is aggressively making the sport less physical. In a Radio interview with XTRA 910 a Phoenix, AZ, Former NBA player, Robert Horry said, "… If you

Many memories are made in football, but sadly some of the greatest players cannot recall them. The National Football League has been associated with concussions and brain traumas throughout the years, but lately it has been exposed by media and NFL veterans. The league recently “reached a $765 million preliminary settlement with thousands of former players who were suing the league over its treatment of concussions…” (Waldron). Many former players are experiencing the effects of taking hard hits over and over again; they were not properly treated, which makes the injury worse and long term. The concussion issue in the NFL is more prevalent today, because it affects not only the players, but the league as a whole.

A suspension from an entire season and thousands of dollars of fine were issued and that seemed light with talks of being banned from baseball floating between the two parties. Major League Baseball took the right direction in the situation making an example of this group of players and especially Rodriguez (Quinn, Fish, and Gomez). This no tolerance policy could hopefully put a stop to the use of steroid in this great sport and get the game back to its original form.

With the younger players seeing the older players as role models they make them pay for the drugs they used while playing, to make an example of how wrong it is in the NFL to get caught with a positive steroid test, and have more than just a four game suspension. Having a higher penalty for using PEDs will hopefully make some of the newer players scared to go anywhere near a drug that improves their performance. They should start making rookies and

The player's name was Mike Webster he was also known as “Iron Mike” because of the hits he received and delivered. Iron Mike played in 220 games the most in Steelers history he also was a Hall of Famer. After the NFL Iron Mike went of the deep end but no one really knew why, they all thought he went crazy. At age 50 Iron Mike was dead and they didn't really know why tell they examined his brain. The doctors though he had “ Punch Drunk Syndrome” which boxers were known to have. Some symptoms of “ Punch Drunk Syndrome” were delusion, paranoia, explosive behavior and loss of memory. Iron Mike had all of them and many more it was the worst case “Punch Drunk Syndrome” doctors had seen. When they examined his brain it wasn't what they thought it would look like at all the brain appeared to be in good condition and the scans all came back normal. After further research and examination the doctors diagnosed that Iron Mike had “Depression secondary to post concussion syndrome”. After the concussion syndrome was diagnosed the NFL's concussion crisis

Rhetorical Analysis Essay: Gay Culverhouse Concussions have become a high priority head injury at all levels of football, but is being spotlighted on the National Football League (NFL) and a well-known issue among retired players who are now suffering the long-term effects of their years as football players. Today when we see a famous football player our attention is on the six figure contracts, million dollar houses, and fast cars. We don’t see the enormous pressure these players are put under and the hardships they put their bodies through every day so their families are taken care of for the rest of their lives. Gay Culverhouse, the former owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has become an activist for former players through her book, Throwaway Players: The Concussion Crisis: From Pee Wee Football to the NFL. The book is filled with emotionally pulling stories and tons of statistics.

a degenerative disease that develops over months, years, or even decades of time after repetitive head blows. “An Attempt for One More Appeal in the NFL Concussion Case” says that lawyers for long time NFL running back, Cookie Gilchrist, compiled evidence to counter the league's claims that his CTE was not sustained from playing football. Despite the claims, experts and lawyers helped prove otherwise by looking at records and data. They concluded that after so many years of playing and getting hit, and so many concussions that were reported not including the ones not reported, that that is why he died of CTE. Former players could agree with the findings of private investigators by sharing stories and experiences. After this football took an even bigger shot to its

Was, and is , the NFL in some sort of denial of the fact that football and concussions are linked. I do believe the NFL is scared. You might ask, “Why would a multi-billion dollar organization be scared of some new test results?”, I’ll tell you, it is not because the NFL is scared of these people who are suing them right now, they are scared of the parents of the next NFLers. Bennet Omalu, discoverer of CTE said this “If 10% of mothers in this country would begin perceive football as a dangerous sport, that is the end of football.”. That is why the NFL has hidden facts and proof of how dangerous the sport is, for years possibly decades. So, is it really unfair for an ex-NFLer who has been cheated, lied to and

The evaluation of the ineffectiveness of the steroid ban provides changes for the NFL to make in their rule and it provides health consequences for players using the substance. The NFL needs to make a rule change or make the rules stricter in order for players to stop using the substance.

If you asked people what the most overblown, ridiculous controversy the NFL has been involved in, most people would agree it’s Deflategate. While it took over two years to settle the case, the losing party, being Tom Brady and the Patriots, seem to have come out on top in the long run seeing how the NFL has dealt with discipline in a very sporadic way since. So my question is, “was the NFL justified in making the disciplinary decision that they made, and has that decision affected controversies after Deflategate?”

It's nothing new for the National Football League's players to be abusing anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. Drug abuse in the league has recently focused around recreational drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol. The newest drug being abused is painkillers. The commissioner and his personal need to change their policies. Will they wait until many more players start to die before they tighten up their drug policies? The National Football League (NFL) can stop most of these drug problems by having more random drug tests given, enforcing stricter punishments when players are caught using drugs, and requiring every team to educate its players annually on the effects and consequences

The twenty four year old lad Zach Mettenberger is an enthusiastic modern football quarterback. The website rivals.com gave him the eleventh rank for being the most skilled pro-style quarterback player. Initially Zach was at the University of Georgia. However, he was debarred because he could not abide to the rules of the game. Before the season of 2011, Zach got an opportunity to play at Louisiana State University, that is, LSU. There were eleven pass attempts in his opening season at that university out of which he could get through eight. In the next year, he was promoted as a quarterback.

Almost immediately there may be some question to the reliability of this source because Harvard University is in Boston which is the hometown of the New England Patriots. One has to assume that living in such close proximity to the team may have caused both the author and Carfagna may to develop some sort of bias either for or against the Patriots. Carfagna points out that the NFL's case is not ridiculous and that the NFL rules allow them to make abstruse decisions when he says, "So I think from a contractual standpoint, in the final award, Commissioner Goodell makes a very strong case that there’s no surprise here, that every player knows that when he signs the individual contract that he’s bound by these provisions (Pazanesse)." This source is quite reliable in the sense that Carfagna certainly has the credentials to present these facts and has a vast amount of knowledge on the subject of suspensions in sports, but it may be hard to look past the Boston-based professor's possible

In Dylan Bennett's article, The NFL Drugs policy came into effect in 1971 but it was not really in forced. Until 1989 when Regan had the "war on drugs" going on. This NFL Drugs policy has a strict no drug policy and it still used in today's NFL. The NFL's policy for drugs is that if a player has 35 NG/ML in his system which to the NFL is contact high there are punished. For the first time an athlete fails a drug test in the NFL they are "referred to the league's abuse program" (8). And that is stage one of the NFL's drug policy. The second stage leads to a two-game fine of the players pay, and then a four-game suspension of the player's pay. In the second stage is a two-game suspension, then it increases to a four-game suspension, and if the

a few cases of players abusing drugs, which have led the NFL to consider changes to the