National Football League

Is professional football too dangerous for players? Since the creation of football in 1869, there have been warnings from doctors about the serious medical consequences of playing professional football. This is because of the number of brain injuries and concussions in NFL players. An example of this is the case of Kevin Turner, a professional NFL player, who died of severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy at the age 46 (Kounang 1). More people should be aware of the severe medical risks that…

There is No I in T E A M A lot of the time cheerleaders are stereotyped as stuck up, pretty girls, with the mindset of being better than everyone else, well that is not always true. Being pretty is not only an outside appearance but, it is also the attitude you portray when dealing with others at Maumelle High School taught me a valuable lesson. I was on a team of twenty four girls and a hand full of them always wanted the spotlight. It was almost like they were all in competition with each…

Super Bowl 1 Report January 15, 1967, the NFL (National Football League), hosted an American Football Championship game. The game was a major hit, it was played before about 62,000 fans at the stadium to watch! The NFL teams playing against each other were the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs. Bart Starr was the quarterback for the Packers he was very important because he was the one who made all the throws for the team if it weren't for his amazing coordination and planning…

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…

Our hearts are Bigger, our bonds are STRONGER, our hits are HARDER, our traditions OLDER, but our weaknesses… FEWER. The New York Giants are a professional American football team located in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. The team plays its home games in East Rutherford, New Jersey, at MetLife Stadium, which it shares with the New York Jets in a unique…

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…

How accurate is the story behind the movie Concussion on team player care management It’s no coincidence the sport of Football is America’s number one sport; we as American’s love to watch athletes compete against each other at the highest level possible especially when it comes to a physical aspect of competing. When it comes to playing the sport of football, you have to realize there’s huge risks that come with it. Due to all the physical contact, injuries such as concussions, spinal…

Recently news reports have been covering incidents of domestic violence and suspected child abuse by players in the National Football League, particularly towards women and children. These stories have captured the attention of the American people, and quite possibly people around the world. However, one story in particular has peeked my interest; The Adrian Peterson case. The recent events surrounding this NFL player have inspired me to take a deeper look into parenting styles in regards to…

Lindsay Jones out of the USA Today says “National Football League players who received a concussion in the 2015 season only spent on average of sixteen days off the football field”(Jones). This has got better throughout the years the average days spent off the football field in 2005 was four days. Now players must be cleared by two doctors, one an independent doctor and another one a team doctor. Another example that shows that the number of days spent off the football field is not enough and…

players played games with no compensation and could be traded from one team to another with no hesitation and players would be in both leagues. Looking at this issue through a political frame, the owners of the NFL made an agreement to provide protection to their resources, by banning any player for five years if he left the league and play for the competing league. The players got tired of being lowball from the association, and in efforts to organization players asked Creighton Miller, a…