Jose Crespo
Ms. D
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9,January ,2016 The controversial dispute is whether or not the NFL are doing enough to address head injuries and their long term effects. One may say the NFL are doing very little in educating their players about the long term effects and what they could be facing down the road. Such as Concussion, Brain damage, and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy also known as (CTE). Some will say that they are being disobedient and stubborn. That they are not taking this situation serious enough or taking any kind of responsibility. Experts say they should stop being in denial and present to the players what their future may look like down the road. However, supporters say that the NFL are handling it very well. There no further …show more content…
But sadly met his demise and died September, 24, 2002 after ten years into his retirement. Which lead up to question is football safe? because his death was almost common that to other veterans. So later Mike’s body was taken in for an autopsy at Allegheny Medical Coroner’s. A Nigerian who goes by the name Bennet Omalu took this task head on without any prior knowledge other than he was some famous football player. He was also trained in the field of neuroscience so which gave him a better understanding exactly what football is all about. During, his autopsy with examining Mike’s brain he said “I saw changes that should not be in a fifty-year- old man’s brains, and changes that should not be in brain that looked normal”-(www.pbs.org). So the results he founded stunned him because how can someone possibly get a dysfunctional looking brain. That spark the question is football truly a safe sport? and was the NFL aware with what was going on. Mike Webster’s played seventeen long seasons in the Nation Football League and to someone such as Bennet Omalu who never watched football ever in his life can see the long term effects of football. What Dr. Omalu unraveled was horrifying, to say the least. He started from the
Ms. D
English 4
9,January ,2016 The controversial dispute is whether or not the NFL are doing enough to address head injuries and their long term effects. One may say the NFL are doing very little in educating their players about the long term effects and what they could be facing down the road. Such as Concussion, Brain damage, and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy also known as (CTE). Some will say that they are being disobedient and stubborn. That they are not taking this situation serious enough or taking any kind of responsibility. Experts say they should stop being in denial and present to the players what their future may look like down the road. However, supporters say that the NFL are handling it very well. There no further …show more content…
But sadly met his demise and died September, 24, 2002 after ten years into his retirement. Which lead up to question is football safe? because his death was almost common that to other veterans. So later Mike’s body was taken in for an autopsy at Allegheny Medical Coroner’s. A Nigerian who goes by the name Bennet Omalu took this task head on without any prior knowledge other than he was some famous football player. He was also trained in the field of neuroscience so which gave him a better understanding exactly what football is all about. During, his autopsy with examining Mike’s brain he said “I saw changes that should not be in a fifty-year- old man’s brains, and changes that should not be in brain that looked normal”-(www.pbs.org). So the results he founded stunned him because how can someone possibly get a dysfunctional looking brain. That spark the question is football truly a safe sport? and was the NFL aware with what was going on. Mike Webster’s played seventeen long seasons in the Nation Football League and to someone such as Bennet Omalu who never watched football ever in his life can see the long term effects of football. What Dr. Omalu unraveled was horrifying, to say the least. He started from the