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Is Football Unsafe?

American Football is a sport that recieves excessive amounts of popularity each year and with popularity comes many people to play football at all sorts of levels. But, football is a vigorous contact sport that causes many injuries which causes some people to question if football is worth the injuries.

Each year around 264,000 high school students suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI) and mental impairment. Also in a study, 87% former football players have Chronic traumatic encephalopathy which causes memory loss and behavioral changes which may lead to physical violence. As awareness grows about concussions some National Football League (NFL) players are retiring from the sport early causing the NFL to think over their concussion protocol more often and making the protocol more strict. CLICK HERE to learn more about injuries that are caused from american football.

Should football be discontinued if these TBI rates continue to grow? Should the NFL continue taking the concussions more seriously? Do you think football is worth the risk of getting injured? Is the dissenting opinion on football helping football become safer?


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  1. Mr. LawlerNovember 12, 2018 at 5:48 AM

    Your question about the dissenting opinion is interesting, Sahil, because football is such a popular sport in the U.S.A. In many cases football fans responded angrily when this research started coming out. In some cases, legitimate scientific research makes people upset because it challenges their most strongly-held beliefs.

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