Alvin Eden, a clinical professor of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical Center, discusses the effects of face masks used in the NFL. The article focuses on a recent report that the NFL has acknowledged the direct relationship between football-related concussions and degenerative brain disorders such as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). Eden, thinks that current epidemic of football-related concussions and the association of repeated concussions with CTE is a serious problem that must be addressed and resolved. The question that this article raises is weather children should or should not participate in the sport since it encourages the use of hard helmets as a weapon to attack the opponent. The article also touches on the history of face
