As
Americans we can all genuinely say that we like to watch football or at least
have gone to one game in their lifetime. If not that, everyone knows about it
and may or may not have their favorite NFL team I for one don’t really watch football
but when I’m bored and there happens to be a game on I will watch a little bit
of it. I have gone to many college football games and of course all of my high
school games. From watching it you don’t see all that happens behind that football
stadium. Consider the amount of money is invested into the NFL and the owners,
executives and staff behind the players. What kind of people are they? How are
they treating all the players? The answer to all this wouldn’t exactly please
anyone but instead making them unsure of their support of the NFL.
“ESPN journalists Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada,
working together with the Frontline folks
and other journalists, told the story of an NFL that spent almost two decades
stonewalling, blackballing and bullying everyone who looked into the connection
between football and brain injuries.” I frankly do not find this very shocking,
when bad things are happening in a big company that makes a lot of money, they
will try to hide it from anyone they can. Of course the NFL is going to deny
those widows and crying children and many doctors plus scientist that football doesn’t
cause brain injury. Discrediting everybody’s work and covering up what
information they have to share with the public and the many players of all
ages. Because if we all boycotted the NFL and never watched another game and
never spent another dollar supporting them, they would have nothing. Now, why
would a big business want to voluntarily do research that could prove the sport
is very dangerous and they didn’t properly tell their players about this?
The NFL’s Mild Traumatic Brain
Injury committee prevented many suffering former players from knowing the
nature of their torment—and they let another generation of players come through
the game without understanding its devastating risks. What is even worse than
hearing this is seeing that we are funding this all, we are paying to watch
them ruin many lives in the NFL. The players are not very informed as you would
think, we still are doing research about the causes of the brain damage to
these players and we can prevent it. At the same the NFL is promoting little
kids to get involved without fully knowing the risk involved. They’ve even set
up some regulations that would help determine how to tackle properly but not
knowing the cause, how would we know if this is the proper prevention? I think
us sending out younger generations to begin the game and start at younger ages
then before is a bad idea but we can’t stop the NFL from promoting kids to like
football and want to play it. The only way we could is to better inform
everybody of ways to get in contact with the NFL and petition.
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