Concussions In High School Sports

Some minor rules have been changed by the NFL to make the game more safe, however concussions are still happening. The heads are these professional players need to be protected more so the brain does not get damaged. The brain does not only get injured during concussions. Minnesota says that any given professional player can receive up to 1500 blows to the head each season. Multiple seasons of football can lead to serious damage, and diseases like alzheimer 's.

He has been intercepted eight times, but more often than not, he knows what went wrong and how he can fix his mistake before he gets back to the sideline. He doesn’t let one negative play take his focus away from the rest of the game. “That was one thing that hurt me last year and would keep me down,” Byrd said. “Everybody throws their picks, but you just have to forget about it and move on to the nxt play.” Should Calaveras win, it will host the winner of No. 3.

In come the upstart Aggies from Texas A&M, led by a talented but very young freshman quarterback, who had just begun making noise around the country with his exciting and controversial style. Against Alabama, the freshman led his team to a 20-0 first quarter lead, helping the Aggies hang on to secure a 29-24 victory and hand Alabama its only blemish in the 2012 college football season. The freshman quarterback’s name was Johnny Manziel. Perhaps you have heard of him? That day in Tuscaloosa was the day the hysteria known as Johnny Football was born, and from it, a shocking loss of control over his own life became apparent.

He was literally going down and he had to whip the ball that far sidearm’” (1). Another teammate, Dan Hampton said “Payton played football with the enthusiasm of a 10th grader trying to be the best tailback on the team,” (1). Mostly everyone in Chicago had the faith in Walter to become something great for this team. When the season rolled along the people were not wrong, he was great his rookie year and he had the stats to back it up. Payton had one stand out game that everyone remembered during his rookie year because he had a total of 300 yards against the New Orleans Saints (Walter 1).

A large aspect of winning football games in the NFL is being able to make a crucial play when the game hangs in the balance; this is when Brady truly shines. If the Patriots find themselves behind in the fourth quarter, Brady always gives his team a chance to win; no matter what circumstances come his way, he will always find a way to win the game for his team. One of the many great things that Tom Brady does during a game is throwing the football

Next week they have a huge game against the second place Green Bay Packers. 6. Pittsburgh Steelers: 6-4 (9) One thing I am certain about is the Steelers will win one of the wild cards in the AFC. If it weren’t for an abundance of injuries, the Steelers would, in my opinion, be a top three team in the entire league. Ben Roethlisberger wasn’t even supposed to play this week, and, despite playing on basically one foot, he threw for 379 yards and three touchdowns.

As a result, fans and even doctors was unaware of the situation on concealment. Because many doctors and researchers were part of the NFL teams, they could not defy the NFL and were forced to forge the data. In order to fix the forgery, independent researchers and physicians who are not affiliated with the NFL must conduct a transparent research to show actual research on concussions in the NFL. Since concussion issues are newly introduced, more reliable and thorough information is needed for players to safely prevent long-term brain injuries. With NFL’s pseudo logical data, the prevention and

As Tom going into the starting role shortly after brought his team to the 2002 xxxvi super bowl down in New Orleans. Tom and his team played very well against the St.louis Rams and securing the victory. Tom getting his first ever Super Bowl ring and his first ever Super Bowl MVP.Shortly after Tom and his team go undefeated all the way to another super bowl winning that super bowl Tom signs a 6 year contract but as the season starts they still a plowing through the teams until October 31. When the patriots are on the longest win streak in NFL history.The pittsburgh Steelers were the ones to end it but didn’t go to the super bowl that season.But in that season Tom got one of his PR and a NFL record of 5,235 passing yards to only tie with Drew brees.Also in 2007 Tom threw the most touchdown passes but was later broken . But two years after his last super bowl win Tom gets another one and now has 12-4 regular season average and creating one of the biggest super bowl attendances!

Research Project: NFL Concussions The project that I decided to research was concussions in sports, focusing on the National Football League. Though the NFL is famously known for being hammered with controversy surrounding concussions, they are trying to improve the health and safety measures to prevent them from happening, and to protect players. These measures are usually tagged with a term called “Concussion protocol”. This term has been thrown around for years by announcers, coaches, players, and probably the most by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. The question I had was, was the concussion protocol actually being effective and reducing the amount of concussions in the NFL?

Since the beginning of football, there has been too much head to head contact. According to Dr Weil (2016), “4,500 former professional football players filed a complaint of the consequences of concussion (long term effects).” These long term effects include such as Alzheimer 's, Parkinson 's, or severe cognitive impairment. About $870 million has been spent on National Football League(NFL) players for concussion related injuries. NFL players are literally being paid to play the game, but what they don 't think of is having to suffer the long term concussion effects. For example, Mike Webster, former Steeler player, was said to be one of the greatest centers alive.

Many different investigations were started in order to connect CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) to football. These investigations succeeded, even though some took longer to be recognized due to the fact of how important American football is to the U.S.A., but nonetheless it was known that NFL players were at a high risk for CTE and the only way to fix it is to stop playing football. During studies like the NFL case in 2002, there was a big riot about NFL and how it impacts the football fans, but they never focused on how the injuries start to stack up into CTE. The scientists that focus towards the beginning of a football athletes rate of concussions start to see the a distortion in the brain. Scientists like Dr. Christopher Whitlow, who did an experiment on 25 boys around mid teens and used helmets to record brain activity while playing football.

From 2010 to 2013 players in the NFL suffered 219 ACL tears. That is a very high number for only ACL tears. There is many other knee injuries that are possible to happen. People need to make sure they don’t go back to sports too early after the injury. The risk of reinjury is a lot higher if you return to early.

Veteran coach Bill Parcells in charge and the successful stockpiling of awesome talent through the NFL draft, the Patriots won the AFC Championship in 1996 and earned a trip to their second Super Bowl but lost to the Green Bay Packers 35-21. In 2001, the Pats hired a new head coach, Bill Belichick. The 6th round pick, Tom Brady replaced Drew Bledsoe who got injured by a jets playing hitting him hard and decleating him. Lucky for that Patriots, Tom Brady became a rising star while completing the season winning Super Bowl XXXVI 20-17 by a winning field goal by Adam Vinatieri. Bill Belichick and Tom Brady have created a present-day dynasty in New England.

Football is the most American of all of the sports we play. We have good memories of playing catch and watching games with our friends, however, there is a darker side to this all-American sport, the damage done to the brains of the players. While the NFL has attempted to make great strides in preventing further damage to players on the field suffering from concussions, the rates of concussions continue to rise. In 2014, 206 concussions were diagnosed, while in 2015, that number rose to 271 concussions. If these new regulations truly had an effect upon the safety of the players, we would instead see little growth, if not a decline, of diagnosed concussions.

As concussions occur more and more in the NFL and among teens, more research has been conducted. There has been research on teens that concussions had occurred in teen’s brains, to find out what type of hit teens gotten by football may of suffer from it. There are many concussions in the NFL and especially teens who play football that have suffered death and never to play the sport they love. Teens and athletes who love the sport football, have been suffered by concussions that had ruin their playing for the most of this moments but research has been conducted of ways to help out teens and NFL. To prevent concussions, coaches and parents have the right to support their athletes to mental support from doctors.