Last year, the NFL revealed that it expects nearly a third of retired players to develop permanent brain impairments. Safety, especially when protecting an individual’s brain, should be highly encouraged, even more than it is now. Safety is highly necessary for hockey because the player can get seriously hurt. If the player does not have the proper gear, especially paddings and helmet, the body and brain can be severely damaged. Even in baseball, the player has to wear protective head gear because of possible strikes to the head. As studies show, violent physical activities can have detrimental long-term effects on the participants. Sports or games that have the possibility of leading to concussions should be banned.

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NFL players receive much harder games and a harder hit to the body rather than a high schooler would, which lead to severe problems later on in their life. From the article "Hard Knocks", the author uses statistics to show the rate of brain damage“Medical researchers at Boston University recently confirmed that 88 of 92 former NFL players who donated their brains for research suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (C.T.E.).”. This is true because when NFL players do this it gives exact information in detail about how their brain remain after C.T.E as well as finding out other symptoms or problems that might’ve occurred. From the article "Hard Knocks", the author uses a timeline to describe what the NFL did. “For years the NFL denied that there was a link between the sport and brain damage, but in 2009, it acknowledged publicly for the first time that concussions suffered while playing football can lead to long-term negative health effects.” As it was presented in the information above, a majority of former NFL players donate their brain for research purposes, so if they had a disease it can be prevented in the future. and how the NFL declared their statement in 2009. This proves how rough the NFL can be during your career and after …show more content…
Louis, Missouri, the school board cut the football team in June because fewer than a dozen players had signed up for the fall 2015 season. This proves that kids are getting scared of getting severe brain juries thus resulting in fewer than 6 kids on a football team in St. Louis, Missouri. However the NFL has teamed up with USA Football, the sport’s national governing body, to sponsor the “Heads Up Football” initiative, which emphasizes safer tackling techniques, concussion recognition and response, and proper equipment fitting. Even though the NFL is coming up with ways so the players do not get concussions, it does not matter. Since Football is such a violent sport, no stone should be left unturned about the safety of the players. No matter how safe the NFL tries to make the sport, it will just not happen. A recent Bloomberg poll found that 50% of Americans wouldn’t want their sons to play football. This shows that the parents that said no to football on behalf of their children want them to be safe, rather than getting any type of injury. Robert Cantu, a clinical professor of neurosurgery at the Boston University School of Medicine and an expert in concussion research, has advised parents not to allow their children to play tackle football until they’re at least 14 years old. Research has shown that kids who began playing tackle football before age 12 are more likely to develop thinking and memory problems as adults. Even