Is Football Dangerous

Football is a wonderful sport, and it has been played for many many years. Over the many years it has been played they have come to find out that it is very dangerous. Getting repeated blows to the head is the main cause for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and is found in 96 percent of NFL players (Murphy). Football is too dangerous to play for any person because it causes many injuries, some in the brain that can be very traumatic. Football may be dangerous, but it has been America's past time for a very long time. The sport of football first started November 6th, 1869 (google) and has not stopped being played yet. Football is played two different ways depending on where you are in the world. European football is called soccer in American and doesn't really involve contact like American football and the only way to score is by kicking the ball into the goal. …show more content…
The NFL racks in billions of dollars for all they do, so what will happen if the franchise is just abolished? The data will be collected at the end of the year to examine and see if the changes they made to the rules had any effect on the injuries the players sustain. You have to give them props though because they are fighting for their business. I do not absolutely believe that the sport should just be gotten rid of, but I do feel like it is really dangerous. There can be some changes in the equipment and I guess if the changes they did make helped then I do not see any reason for the sport to be over with. There is a few things to take into consideration when you are trying to get the sport banned, ask yourself is it even possible to keep someone ultimately concussion free? Or is it even possible to eliminate any injury in the sport of football? I’m going to have to lean more to the it is not possible side because freak accidents happen and you can not control