Violence in the NFL

Article by Brian T. Smith explains that the “NFL needs to look into curbing excessive violence in games”. In the NFL there are countless amount of injuries happening frequently. In modern American football players are getting faster and stronger, and the officials aren’t imputing more rules on them. Some say, “Pro football must return to its heroic, old-school, hard-hitting ways?” in the “old-school’ football is was less probable to receive a big injury. In the NFL today, a player from the Pittsburgh Steelers, Ryan Shazier was carried off the football field after suffering a spinal injury during a game with the Cincinnati Bengals. J.J. Watt from the Houston Texans tweeted after Shazier’s injury; “So much more important than the game is the life. Wishing for the absolute best for you brother.” Helmets and padding protection has significantly improved since the start of football in the early 1900s but is it enough to protect them? In football, evolution leads to bigger, stronger, faster players launching themselves into other bigger, stronger, faster players with unimaginable force. Officials should be more vigilant on tackles and even establish stricter rules that limit unnecessary roughness in the games. With this placed into motion fans will be disappointed, “When did the NFL become a child's game?” it is a fun sport to watch but will it still be fun when we start seeing players in the field getting seriously hurt more constantly? A player’s strength can be described as a weapon because of the history of injuries caused by collisions. At the end of the day, playing and watching football is fun, but having severe injuries isn’t worth it. There needs to be a demand for safety and needs to be done before more and more injuries happen.