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The NFL—doubtfully the biggest sport in America, of which has millions of viewers—has had a big impact on the American culture. From taking the day of the super bowl off of work to the change in masculinity, football continues to change the culture. Granted many might know just about everything there is to know about the sport, many don’t the suffers of the players. The forceful impact on the body and the head can lead to brain degenerative diseases, to painful body aches, and change in…

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Green Bay Packers Green Bay Packers. I’m going to tell you some information about the Green Bay Packers. They were the first to become an actual NFL team. They started playing real games in the tournament on August 27th, 1921. Review by: Nathaniel 1/26 at 8:33 a.m. The Green Bay Packers, the most storied franchise in the National Football League, were made or organized on August 11th, 1919. Green Bay was a powerhouse from the first time the team set foot on the field. When the Packers did their…

hits to the head sustained while playing the game of football ultimately results in the degeneration of brain tissue and the build-up of an abnormal protein known as tau. Mike Webster was a famous offensive linemen for the Pittsburg Steelers who spent fourteen years in Pittsburg and his last two years in Kansas City. Mike Webster’s brain was the first of many NFL players’ that were sent and used for research. After his death, Webster, followed by eight more former NFL players, were…

Imagine the Super bowl is on the line your defense is on the goal line your defense need to prevent the offense from crossing the line to score a touchdown. Then the opponent snaps the ball the QB throw the ball next second interception in the End zone the game over your team win the Super bowl. When I thought about my topic this was one of the first things that pop into my mind. I didn't watch sport until seventh grade. NFL was the sport that crossed my eye because it is like a chess game. When…

Coca-Cola is one of the largest and most well known brands across the entire world. They’ve been around for 130 years, and have one of the most popular drinks across the globe. The amount of power and influence they possess is limitless. They have all the money and resources to reach out to billions of people and make a permanent change globally. Marketing has always been a high priority for every large corporation, as for Coca-Cola, they take a strong initiative to make sure they get their…

Nowinski didn 't stop there; he also helped discover chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a structural brain disease where cells are damaged and eventually killed in the brain, in Pittsburg Steeler Justin Strzelcyz with the help of Dr. Bennett Omalu. He wrote and published the book the documentary is based on, Head Games that described the story of Mike Webster and other athletes. The book was published in 2006 and received no credit as being…

Jackie Robinson, the first black professional baseball player credited with breaking the color barrier in sports, described his battle against racism when he said, “I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made” (Calcaterra). Here, Robinson conveys the challenges of African Americans in modern professional sports. The ongoing struggle against racial discrimination is seen in the NFL today through the extremely low number of…

In football, every play is a feat of endurance. The snap sets off a crescendo of violence as linebackers slam together, receivers take off, and the quarterback desperately scurries for safety in the backfield. Players “[regard] their bodies as machines and weapons with which to annihilate their opponents,” and do not hesitate in taking down their foes (Messner and Sabo 95). They are injured fairly regularly in this hostile landscape: some athletes even endure career ending injuries. In…

Mark Fainaru wrote this documentary to enlighten us on what is really causing the football players concussions. Scientist were figuring out why players life spans were not very long. They bought it to the league which they were denying the true fact that were going on. The League kept denying the subject and tried to cover it up possible ties with the player’s concussions and their suffering on the football field and all the brain injuries. The league covers up the real reason why they are…