Football and the NFL, over the past few decades it has evolved in to a juggernaut across the country. An argument can be made now that it has surpassed baseball as America’s national past time. Its championship game the Superbowl has pretty much become a national holiday. The NFL is made up of 32 teams and those teams play in a 17-week season, plus the playoffs. According to the NFL’s website, each of those games generates millions and millions of dollars for the NFL, so much the sport generates over $9 billion dollars a season just during the season. So what can slow down this giant of a sport? Well the sport of football has run into an ethical dilemma. This dilemma is concussions and the effects of head trauma after football. A concussion is considered a brain
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The NFL states that they provide benefits: in joint replacement, long-term care insurance, life insurance programs, prescriptions benefits, neurological evaluations and spine treatment programs, assisted living partnerships, and a Medicare program. The NFL claims that their partnership they have with the NFLPA has spent over a billion dollars on all of these benefits. The NFL is looking into whether previous injuries and lifestyle of the litigants have anything to do with the injuries. If the NFL had lost that case it could have end up paying over $500,000 for each individual player, which could end up in over $10 billion total. Because the NFL brings in an average of 9 billion dollars a year this would have be crippling to the league’s profit (Feeley).
From an ethical perspective, the NFL has a social responsibility to take care of their employees and hold an acceptable standard of living. A socially responsible company would do everything to keep their employees satisfied and safe. The NFL faced a crisis that of the players safety and has took way to long to act because of their
The NFL states that they provide benefits: in joint replacement, long-term care insurance, life insurance programs, prescriptions benefits, neurological evaluations and spine treatment programs, assisted living partnerships, and a Medicare program. The NFL claims that their partnership they have with the NFLPA has spent over a billion dollars on all of these benefits. The NFL is looking into whether previous injuries and lifestyle of the litigants have anything to do with the injuries. If the NFL had lost that case it could have end up paying over $500,000 for each individual player, which could end up in over $10 billion total. Because the NFL brings in an average of 9 billion dollars a year this would have be crippling to the league’s profit (Feeley).
From an ethical perspective, the NFL has a social responsibility to take care of their employees and hold an acceptable standard of living. A socially responsible company would do everything to keep their employees satisfied and safe. The NFL faced a crisis that of the players safety and has took way to long to act because of their