...The Super Bowl is our country's national celebration of football, a game Dr. Bennet Omalu, the doctor who discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), calls our "collective societal intoxication and addiction." From an entertainment perspective, football is more popular than ever. Attendance figures, television ratings and the growth of fantasy football tell us that. However, while the game's popularity might be on the upswing, so is the scientific evidence that football is hazardous to the human brain. And it's not just concussions. "In terms of the truth, it is not about concussions," said Omalu in a recent interview with sport and culture writer Patrick Hruby. "It is about blows to the head." Long term, repetitive sub-concussive...
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...Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a degenerative disease, often found in American football players, can cause individuals who suffer from the disease many mental and physical disturbances. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a form of taupathy, which is a progressive degenerative disease found in people who have suffered a severe blow to the head. According to Brandon E. Gavett, a Ph. D writing a research paper on the effects of CTE,chronic traumatic encephalopathy is mainly found in professional competing in American football and it can also affect high school players who have played for a mere few years. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy was first recognized in the 1920’s as a disease that developed in boxers, but as the decades went by...
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...Football is one of the most popular sports in the United states. However it is also one of the most dangerous sports out there personally I believe it is too dangerous to play in high school. Football players sustain more than half a million injuries nationally. Injuries such as concussions, fractures and worse of all chronic traumatic encephalopathy or more commonly know as CTE. CTE was first discovered by Dr. Bennet Omalu a forensic pathologist and neuropathologist Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The NFL and NCAA are implementing and regulating rules to make the game safer for players. Football is the leading sport in sport related injuries. In a research conducted by the Center for Injury and Research and Policy at Columbus Children's Hospital...
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...But this proves to be untrue because the more special and memorable plays are ones of great catches, runs and throws, not ones of deadly head on head tackles. Also, the less concussions there are the more longer players can play in the league and continue entertaining the fans of the game. It is only a small compromise to the excitement of football because the outcome of no compromise is the continuation of suffering of players due brain trauma. Players with a lot of brain trauma will suffer from CTE, Alzheimer’s disease and many other countless brain and spinal injuries. The risk of football is not worth the reward. Prevention can be achieved by new rules to game of football such as limitations on how players can tackle and how they are supposed to report concussions. Also, using today’s new technology and science can improve the reporting of concussions and can bring better methods of treatment of head injuries. Lastly, intervening injustice with the use of the law is necessary to allocate the worth funds to players and their families for concussions in football they were not educated on...
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...On January 31, 2012, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation issued an order consolidating several lawsuits against the National Football League into one large case of Multidistrict Litigation. All of the lawsuits that have been filed claim “tortious conduct” on the part of the NFL, resulting in neuro-degenerative disease and injury to professional football players. As of January 24, 2013, over 4,500 retired NFL players, more than one-third of players to ever sign an NFL contract, had brought a suit against the NFL concerning the head injuries that they sustained on the field during their playing careers. (Anderson, 1). Given the outstanding popularity of football in the United States, these lawsuits have garnered the attention of national media, prompting debate, discussion, and research about the dangers of football-related head injuries and the future of the NFL. (Fenno, 1). The litigation has the potential to reach the scale of the Big Tobacco litigation of the 1990’s, but the NFL has thrown a substantial roadblock in the players’ suit with a federal employment law preemption defense. (Fisher, 1). The consolidation of all the lawsuits into the Multidistrict Litigation has created the ability for both parties to decide the legal issues presented by the players’ claims and the NFL’s defenses. This paper will examine the merits of those claims and defenses, offer insight into how the players applied rhetorical devices to further their case, address the link established...
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