Over 80% of athletes who take part in close contact sports experience symptoms related to CTE or Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. In an article that was published on September 18, 2015, PBS and Frontline talked about the outcomes of a lab taking place in the middle of the heated debate about concussions in NFL games. “A total of 87 out of 91 former NFL players have tested positive for the brain disease” (Breslow, 2015). “The disease identified is known as Chronic Traumatic …show more content…
Known to some as “punch drunk”, it can prove deadly if not treated. Many former NFL athletes have committed suicide because of brain injuries they sustained while playing football. We need to evolve the rules of contact sports to protect our athletes and the sports themselves. If too many deaths begin occurring because of brain injuries, sports like football that are a beloved American pastime could become banned in the future. If we change the rules and begin protecting our athletes by looking for the signs early on, we might be able to stop this future from becoming a painful