Nathan Hagemeyer's Article

Football Too Aggressive?

I stand for football not being too aggressive!

                Football is ranked the third most dangerous sport in America with 418,260 injuries that required hospitalization. There have been many cases of football players that have been paralyzed or seriously injured due to the lack of protection in football.  For instance Eric LeGrand, former Rutgers football player, has been paralyzed from suffering a severe spinal injury during a game against the Army Black Knights.  Mr. LeGrand still has hope though; he is currently recovering and now has movement in his head and neck and is hopeful that he will someday walk again. However, given these occurrences football should stay how it is.  Football is football because of its roughness.

Football is a full contact sport, and it is suppose to be rough. We need to make more technological advancements in our sports. Football needs to keep its roughness, but more precautions are needed to insure the player’s safety. Yes, changing the practice times to prevent heat stroke is good, but more advancements are needed to prevent knee and ankle injuries, since knee injuries are most common in football. Scientists need to create some sort of sleeve or something that prevents torn ACL’s and knee blowouts. We need to make more substantial advancements like Helmet companies putting more padding into their product to prevent concussions. If we were to change football into a less aggressive sport it would be known as panzyball.