Suspension: The Importance Of Concussions In The NFL

According to Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the NFL says that ¨the league is more safer than it has been over the past thirteen years¨ but during the games there have been times that the players deliver heavy hits to the head and they just get up like if it's nothing. Not to mention, they start to forget what happened the last twenty four hours and also begin to start vomiting, which can lead to a concussion protocol and end their football career for good if they get more than three concussions in one season. They are some ways to prevent obtaining a concussion which is by not hitting the opposite player with your head and prevent causing a helmet to helmet collision from happening during a game. The NFL should be more careful about the concussions that have been occurring during the games because it affects their actions and also it could affect their hand eye coordination. …show more content…
From my perspective, I think that most of the players in the NFL has have more than 2 concussions throughout the season due to heavy that they deliver or the type of hit that they have received during the regular season and the Playoffs which can lead them to miss a couple of games of the 2017-2018 season. According to the studies of Mitchel Berger, chairman of the department of Neurosurgery at the University of California at San Francisco and a member of the NFL's Head, Neck and Spine Committee is encouraged that the number of concussions have decreased far from satisfied