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Prior to this, there was speculation by several doctors that the long term effects of repeated mild concussions cause by the game was unknown. The National Football League took a long time to begin taking serious action for player safety. Compared the football played decades ago, players are much safer now. Still though the National Football League is not doing enough to ensure the safety of it’s players. One area in whcih the NFL is working to protect its players is safety equipment. In the…

How and when did the Texans become an NFL franchise? Houston Texans is a professional football team based in Houston, Texas. The team is a member of the South Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Texans joined the NFL in 2002 as an expansion team after Houston's previous franchise, the Houston Oilers, moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where they are now the Tennessee Titans.[3] The team's majority owner is Bob McNair. The team clinched its…

The History and Structure of the 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…

his height is 6’4 and he is 29 years old and his birthday is July 31,1988. Russell Wilson is a quarterback and play for the Seattle seahawks for national football league. he was born on November 29,1988 he is 28 years old his height is 5’11 #3. JJ Watt is a american football defensive end he play for the houston texans of the national football league he was born on March 22,1989 age 28 he is 6’5 and he had 76 quarterback sacks he is…

Hundreds of millions of people tune into watch the Super Bowl every year. It is where the final two teams in the NFL(National Football League) play each other in the final game of the year. 5.Athleticism- People like to watch a bunch of people run around and test the human performance. 350 pound men should not be able to run faster than the average human can. Catching a football…

As Jonathon Gatehouse has reported in his article “Our National Blood Sport,” the National Hockey League is an “institution that celebrates violence” given that hockey “was always about dominating or intimidating other players…through skill, or bodychecking, or speed, or fighting.” While we know that violence is common in the National Hockey League, most of us did not know that it was Chara’s hit that caused the emergence of the five-point…

sports' roots. The exact start of hockey is hard to tell because it was not recorded since the beginning and making of the game, but there are also beginnings in hockey that are set in stone such as the first organized hockey game, the first hockey league, and the donation of the Stanley Cup. The origins of hockey or for any sport are hard to trace or exactly say where and when they started due to unrecorded experiences that are now just memories or thoughts ("The Birthplace or…

What is the history of football? Football is an American sport that is watched all across the United States. Some believe Super Bowl Sunday should be a national holiday. Football is important to Americans and is something may people tend to bond over. The history of football is clearly the way the sport was created, how it all started and how it is important to the present day sport. Football is a sport that the entire family is able to bond over. This sport has been a part of American history a…

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…

Many boys growing up playing hockey dreamed of becoming pro hockey players, playing in the National Hockey League (NHL) and eventually winning the Stanley Cup, the championship trophy of the NHL. Unlike them, girls who grew up playing hockey played to increase their chances on being able to go to college on a scholarship or maybe play in the Olympics, if they were lucky. Many of these girls saw their hockey careers end after they graduated college. A few of the lucky ones, who were skilled…