American Football League

National Football League (NFL) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in June 1994. Jackson had previously filed a discrimination charge in 1991 with the Equal Opportunity Commission and was granted the right to sue on July 1, 1992 (Jackson v. National Football League, 1994). The plaintiff, James Jackson III, an African American minor league football coach, sued the NFL because he was not granted an interview for a head coaching position in the World League of American…

prevention of concussions. The right helmet can do a lot for you and can significantly reduce how much your head may shake when it is rattled up. According to the American Academy of Neurology, helmets are actually doing little to protect side head hits and rotational force. The AAN conducted several tests to compare brands of football helmets and what kind of force they can encounter. The studies were drop tests with the helmets and then with force sensors inside the helmet. All different types…

Inside Football League “Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time,” (Lombardi 2010). Vince Lombardi said this to his players while getting ready for the 1970 NFC Championship game. Like winning, football is an all the time thing that happens year round, whether one is training as an athlete for the regular season or is a spectator of the game, football is a major part of our society. Football done…

quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League, made $21,850,000 last year (Forbes list of highest paid athletes). The average NFL player gets paid $2,000,000 per year (www.thefiscaltimes.com). The average American citizen makes $27,519 per year (www.mybudget360.com), which is $1,972,481 less than the average NFL player. Sooner or later somebody has to ask,“why is there such a big income difference?” After all, football is just a game, there are…

Boxing and professional wrestling were amongst the sports that started the rise of broadcasting during a time when baseball and even college football were viewed more popular than professional football. Post-Network Era The powerful relationship started in 1964 when only one network aired the NFL because every other network aired strictly American Football League games. The rights to the NFL and AFL games were crucial because during this time all home games were blacked out causing fans to…

NFL football, one of America’s most popular past times, is currently in a crisis. Viewership ratings are down across the board. Many are wondering whether football can sustain its place as a lucrative asset for television companies at a time when increasing amounts of Americans are abandoning traditional television. Brian Hughes, a senior Vice President at Magna Global, said that football’s traditional TV audience “is never going to be what it was again.” This has become worrisome for network…

Some say American Football is the best sport in the world, read on to find why. American Football grew out from sports such as rugby and soccer and became popular on American college campuses around the late 1800s. Today, the most watched television in the united states the superbowl. The NFL has an annual revenue of $9 billion, with a profit of $1 billion dollars. In 1962 CBS paid $4.65 million in 1962 for the first exclusive rights to broadcast NFL games besides the NFL championship. American…

has affected the nation as much as football. Football is at the center of many people’s lives and is what can contribute to much of family gatherings and heartfelt moments. Football is a focal point in American pastimes as we see through its history, influential people, importance today, and its pros and cons. Football in America began in Ivy League colleges, specifically between Princeton and Rutgers in a game on November 6, 1869. Essentially, American Football began as a cross between rugby…

acknowledged a link between football and a degenerative brain disease for the first time” (Castiello, 2016). The strong, heavy and fast American football players are able to generate a huge force when ramming on the field in a play, more specifically helmet-to-helmet crashes are very common in many times of the game. “The lawsuit combines more than 80 prior that seek to hold the league responsible for treatment of brain injuries and diseases”(Bang, 2012). Most importantly, the league had denied…

The National Football League had a notoriously bad last two years; some blamed the election as a distraction, but the most obvious audience deterrents were political protests which disrespected a "time honored [American] tradition," as well as the military and law enforcement. In response, a failed independent football league, the Extreme Football League, or XFL, announced that it will make another attempt at starting a league by creating one that eliminates politics and other elements that…