American Football League

Sure, other countries have football, but it’s just not the atmosphere as it is here in America where you have can have whole nation watching it with so much compassion. Football, a form of team game played in North America with an oval ball on a field marked out as a gridiron. But if you ever see football on commercials, then you know that’s only the outline of the building. They’re so many different types of footballs’ atmospheres in America. High school level of football, when you have all…

Football and basketball are probably the most popular sports in America, alongside a few others. During the playoffs and the Super Bowl in football, and the time of march madness and the championship in basketball, families and friends meet together and watch the games as a group. The sports go head to head as the best sports of America, but a fair amount believes basketball to be the better of the two. Basketball is definitely better than football. Admittedly, NFL games have set schedules.…

A Scientific Analysis on Concussions in American Football in Regards to Helmets and Gameplay Regulations Introduction A concussion is medically defined as “ a traumatic injury to soft tissue, most commonly to the brain, as a result of a violent blow, shaking, or spinning” (Concussion). Concussions that involve the cranial cavity pose the threat of immediate damage as well as permanent and degenerative effects that contribute to the loss of natural cognition, equilibrium, and…

Safety of Starting Sprint Positions in American Football In “What is the Safest Sprint Starting Position for American Football Players?,” a scientific research article, authors Bruno Bonnechere, Benoit Beyer, Marcel Rooze, and Jan Serge Van Sint explain their elaborate plan to find the safest sprint starting position for American football players. Three starting sprint positions are used in the experiment: 4-point, 3-point, and 2-point positions (Bonnechere, Beyer, Rooze, Sint, 2014).…

In America we eat, sleep, and breathe the game of football. Embedded in our minds at a young age most kids begin playing football competitively, for fun, or simply just watching the game as early as 4 years old. Football is a game that brings people and families closer in America and puts smiles on their faces. For example every thanksgiving there is a NFL football game played every single year. Where tons of families across the country gather around eat great food and watch grown men’s bodies…

on athletics, many sports such as football, boxing, soccer, and hockey. I have decided to narrow my research down to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in football players because of that, critical knowledge needs to be known in order to understand the research proposal. American Football began in the year 1889 being played in the most elite universities around the country. The first official game of college football was played on November 6 1869. From there football began to take off, leading…

Fatal injuries for a football players After catching a brown pigskin spheroid ball than getting hit with the force of what feels like the mass of a truck and being knocked out cold.Then minutes later being thrown back into the jungle by medical officials.Then getting hit by another truck over and over again.That's what the life of an NFL player is and have been since the beginning in 1920.Yes, of course the game has been revolutionized and there have been evaluations of equipment and rules.Even…

healed. In this case, NFL athletes have gotten injured and later realized it had caused further damage to their mind or body. Tracy Scroggins, a former NFL player, sued the league, seeking $5 million after he was preliminarily diagnosed with CTE. According to Belson, a New York Times NFL journalist, 5,000 former players sued the league due to hidden dangers of concussions that…

When it comes to high school football it’s a major form of entertainment. Showing how young teenage athletes interact with one another making a game play be a success. It involves students getting into the school spirit by using paint to represent school colors, throwing glitter, and/use a bullhorn when there’s a touchdown. The parents of the players are always in the front row so they can get a snapshot of their kid putting in work on the field and show parental support. Behind all the fun and…

The National Football League has had its number of lockouts, the most recent and historically longest being in 2011. It lasted 132 days until an agreement was made between the players and owners. There are many aspects involved in reaching their agreement, however at the end of the day it comes down to money, $9 billion dollars annually to be exact. Back in 2006 the current agreement was set to expire but was extended by both the players and owners. In 2008 owners chose to opt out of the…