...pads and the newest, safest helmets players still have an extremely high probability of sustaining a minor or serious injury. Some of these injuries can create long lasting health problems that can affect an athlete throughout the rest of their lives. Football is to dangerous of a sport for high school students, because it can cause serious injuries like concussions and also leaves many players with multiple long term health issues. Concussions are a very serious injury that many students experience while playing football. The total number of concussions throughout a season maintains a rapid increase, as it develops into a more frequent and dangerous injury. Over 9500 concussions occurred throughout the 2014 high school football season, and...
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...The Ethics of Elite Football As the most popular sport in the United States, football is firmly ingrained in our American society. Despite football’s vast popularity, football is currently an overall detriment to our society. Serious fundamental changes need to be implemented to the structure of football in order for it to be morally improved in the future. With more research appearing each day, it is clear the neurological health of players needs to be taken more in to account. Underprivileged kids also need to start invest investing in school over football to succeed in their future and the well being of the players and public should always be put before money, especially the NFL’s. Not everyone believes football needs to be changed. Many people believe that football does not need to be changed at all. In Mark Edmundson’s, Why Football Matters, he emphasizes that football teaches invaluable character values. For example, football instills camaraderie that creates life long friendships and gives them beneficial knowledge about teamwork for the rest of their lives. Opponents also cite how football teaches you how to work hard overcome adversity, deal with failure and strive for excellence. Football inspires valuable teaching beneficial to the rest of your life. Furthermore, opponents to changing football say football gives more opportunities for underprivileged kids to be able to receive a college education or make their living through football. Moreover, opponents to change...
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...Football Tragedies It's been proven that American Football is a dangerous sport because of an impact a football player gets in only one hit. Also, because of the concussions a football player gets can cause brain damage. There is a 99% chance of a NFL player to get the common disease called Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). This disease is caused by all the head trauma a player gets from playing the sport. I believe a football player knows what is ahead of his future, but does not really care about dying with a disease because this is their passion and they are willing to die doing what they love the most. For the most part this is something that should be talked about because many parents who put their child in football at a young age don't know what their child will be diagnosed with CTE. Me as a mother, I would not allow my child to be a football player because what type of mother will put their child in a situation like this knowing what the consequences will be when they are grown adults. Football is a dangerous sport at any age when you are out on the field whether you are doing it professionally or throughout your life on a...
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...Master. Nike World Cup 1. Discuss the factors that have resulted in Nike Football becoming over a $1 Billion division and a major force in the football market. The Nike football brand believed that the only way to seize any kind of opportunity for growth is to first have a product that speaks for itself. Therefore, Nike believed that footwear product innovation should have the most focus. Nike had four steps to product innovation, development, design, marketing and most importantly, testing. The company spent hundreds of millions of dollars to create the right products that the athletes could preform well on. The fact that the 2006 world cup final between France and Italy, an Adidas and Puma team respectively, had 12 of the 22 starts still wearing a Nike shoe is a testament to the quality of the Nike products. Once Nike became a proven brand. It needed to find ways of reaching fans in unconventional ways because the Advertising rights were already bought out from Adidas. But, Nike saw how international players from South America and Asia were moving to European leagues and the game was about to transform from a “scoring matters” culture, to a “getting past your man is just a good” culture. This played well with Nike’s sponsorship with the Brazilian National team who were well known for their stylish way of playing football. Nike piggybacked this niche in the market to bring a new edge of football that promoted individual performance that can be enhanced with Nike’s cutting...
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...Playing football as a kid was always every little boys dream of one day becoming a professional player in the NFL. Suiting up in cleats, shoulder pads, and helmets was always a fun time. Back in high school when the coaches would make you have two a day practices to get ready for the fall. In the back of the players minds, and even their parents is the idea of a very bad injury or even a concussion. What is a concussion you might ask? Concussion is a temporary unconsciousness caused by a blow to the head. The term is also used loosely of the after effects such as confusion or temporary incapacity. Concussions can be very difficult to spot especially since plays don’t necessarily have to be knocked out in order to receive a concussion. This is why players who suffer from head injuries are often told to shake it off and get back in the game. Many concussions in high school go undiagnosed due to lack of staff, player, and family knowledge about concussions. Being able to recognize a concussion is the first step in protecting athletes. Ways to recognize a concussion that has either been knocked out or still conscious would be if a player feels dizzy, confused and forgetful, complains about headaches, and/or vomit or feels nauseous. Concussion symptoms can either occur right away or in some cases they can begin weeks later after receiving the hit that caused the concussion. Concussions have been around since the beginning of time even out of sporting events like Football. Times have...
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...athletes. Many people think that paying college athletes will bring some problems to universities/colleges, such as offering players more money.However it would be unfair for less appealing and wealthy schools because they do not have as much power or money to recruit the best players. Though people do not understand that college football is for stronger players compared to weaker ones. If the players are dedicated to playing for their future, then paying college athletes would prepare them for the NFL(National Football League) and the players who don’t make it still help their team get better. Although most players in college do not make it to the NFL, every player on their teams help win and helps other players get better so everyone should receive a piece of the action....
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...Football!, created in such a way you never ever played it previously. Belong to the activity, be the Quaterback, regulate your player straight. Sick of simply picking steps from the playbook? Meet Stickman Football, play as well as straight manage your preferred hero in every information, deal with, pass, run or deceive the protectors while going with your firstly goal! Stickman Football ultimately signs up with the renowneded Stickman Sports game collection including Stickman Soccer, Stickman Soccer 2014, Stickman Tennis, Stickman Tennis 2015, Stickman Basketball and also Stickman Ice Hockey. Encounter pure football enjoyable without rapid paced gameplay, an impressive ambience, spectacular smooth computer animations, easy commands, crazy...
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...Table of Contents 1 The Ethical Issue – Whether to Pay NCAA Football Student-Athletes 3 1.1 The Case For Maintaining the Current System - Not Paying NCAA Football Student-Athletes 4 1.2 The Case For Paying NCAA Football Student-Athletes 6 1.3 Conclusion 11 1.4 References 13 The Ethical Issue – Whether to Pay NCAA Football Student-Athletes Top college football programs make hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues each year, all without having to pay the people who actually play the game. Is it ethical for colleges to not pay their football stars for playing their hearts out on the field, building popular branding images for themselves and their school, and for the collective big-money earnings and prestige that often comes to their schools? Or is indirect payment to these players in the form of a free undergraduate education and college degree through an athletic scholarship sufficient enough? In the 2012 NFL season, 1,947 players played in at least one game. Of those, 62% attended college at one of the five “power conferences” in the U.S., and only one of those players did not attend college at all.[i] Donald Remy, the NCAA chief legal officer has said, “The NCAA’s rules do not force athletes who wish to be professionals to enroll in school,”[ii] yet premier NCAA schools clearly offer the best path to fulfilling these hopeful football players’ dreams. Nevertheless, despite the more opportunistic path of attending a Division...
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...Did you know that a hit by a college football player these days can cause a serious injury or maybe even death? The targeting rule in college football makes an attempt to prevent these kind of hits. The targeting rule's only intent is to make the game safer for the players and the players' future. One hit above the neck on someone who cannot defend themselves could and a player's future. The targeting rule in college football should be kept due to player safety and player health. College officials and the rule itself have proven that the targeting rule makes the game safer. Johnson states, "the rule, passed by the Football Rules Committee in February and approved by Playing Rules Oversight Panel in March, addresses the committee's concern...
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...INTRODUCTION The Malaysia national football team is the national team of Malaysia and is controlled by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM). It has never qualified for the World Cup finals, although the team did qualify to play in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. However, Malaysia did not take part after heeding a United States-led boycott of the Games due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The most significant successes of the team has come in the regional AFC Suzuki Cup, which Malaysia won in 2010 for the first time in history. They beat Indonesia 4–2 on aggregate in the final to capture the country's first major international football title. Malaysia had many top players since the creation of the Federation of Malaya, such as Tan Sri Datuk Abdul Ghani Minhat, who was remembered for his lethal skills as a striker and known throughout the land as ‘The King of Football’. Then came the likes of the legendary Mokhtar Dahari and James Wong, which led Malaysia into their golden age during the 1970s until the 1980s. In 1962, Malaysia recorded a 15–1 victory over the Philippines, which is currently the record for the highest win for the national team. In the current generation, Mohd Safee Mohd Sali and Norshahrul Idlan Talaha are considered by many Malaysians as the best strikers of this generation. In the FIFA World Rankings, Malaysia's highest standing was in the first release of the figures, in August 1993, at 75th. Currently, Malaysia is ranked in the 163rd position....
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...past memory that stands out the most to me is playing for my high school football team. The time I had spent on the football field as a teen was without a doubt the best time of my life. It’s been a long eight years since I have played football but, I can’t go a day without reflecting back on my ball playing days. Every time I see a high school football game I wish I could turn back the hands of time and play football for my high school again and relive all the great moments I spent with my teammates again. Growing up, I went to a lot of different schools, because my family moved a lot so as result I never had steady solid friendships also as a pre-teen I was getting in to trouble and spending too much time on the streets and not focusing on my studies. I was skipping a lot of school and starting to rebel a lot. I was headed on the wrong track my older brother took a notice to this and stepped in to steer me back on the right course. His suggestion was joining football. He said I had too much free time and nothing positive going on and looking back he was right. He helped gain an interest in football and got me signed up on the team. My brother being such a positive person and looking out for me and my future and playing on the football team really saved my life as I look back. If he never helped me get into football who knows what my future would have held. When I became a player on the football team that was the first time I had real true friends. My mother said to...
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...make sense? Table of Contents 1. Football in America: Playing on Its Home Turf 1.1 Football Surpasses Baseball as America’s Favorite Pastime 1.2 Football Generates Billions of Dollars for Owners and Players 1.3 The Economics of Football Goes Beyond the Playing Field 2. Football Goes Global 2.1 The Super Bowl Introduces Football to the Rest of the World 2.2 NFL Europe Provides a Testing Ground for NFL 2.3 English Crowds Flock to See NFL Visitors 2.4 Commissioner Wants to Take the League to England and Beyond 3. Looking to the Future: Is It the Right Move 3.1 New Legions of Fans Could Enhance Profits and the Sport’s Popularity 3.2 Why the Move Might Be Counterproductive 3.3 Why stop at London? 4. The NFL in Europe Is Imminent, But Is It the Correct Move? 4.1 Questions Still Remain about London’s Viability 4.2 Final Conclusion The NFL in Europe: Will it make dollars, does it make sense? 1. Football in America: Playing on Its Home Turf 1.1 Football Surpasses Baseball as America’s Favorite Pastime There was a time when baseball was the most popular sport in the United States. Football used to be an afterthought for most sports fans. In the first half of the 20th century, baseball was king and football was fighting for its survival. In fact, football was considered on the same level as professional basketball, boxing, golf and horse racing. That all started to change in the 1960s when professional football began capturing the nation’s imagination...
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...Every fall Saturday millions of parents, students of the past present and future, crazed fans, media from around country, all come together in in small and large towns across the country, for what? They do all of the theatrics to support their schools in the sport of football. College football is unique in many ways, but what baffles many people is how the universities and colleges, along with their athletic program can make so much money from the game itself, which by the way include student-athletes. As the crowds of people I described earlier come into these stadiums and spend money to watch their school play, despite who is on the roster (meaning people trend to support schools not players), the athletes are not allowed to profit from their talents. After many years of debate there has now been enough case-law, scandals, and law-suits (that usually started from a scandal) too have a reasonable fight on why student-athletes among all divisions should receive percentages of in season earnings of all athletic events. As an avoid video game freak, it became rather easy for me to research in examples of how the money may be falling the wrong direction all over the NCAA. Focusing in in EA sports and their version of college football in the virtual in the series, NCAA FOOTBALL (YEAR).In, Gettin' Played: How the Video Game Industry Violates College Athletes' Rights of Publicity by Not Paying for Their Likenesses, author Matzkin, prevents case law and examples of how the names of...
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...discussed question as there are many views. This topic is also discussed in the sources, “ Hard Knocks” By Gabriel Charles Tyler, “ Concussion Hazards in Youth Football ” By CNN, and the “ How many G’s ” infographic by The University of Michigan School of Kinesiology.(all sources are non- fiction) “ Hard...
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...Madison Moore Mrs. Kampa Eng 121 1 March 2016 Football Players Need Yoga When most Americans hear the word 'yoga', they think of a petite girl in a ponytail and leggings, carrying her purple yoga mat. This image has become so completely part of the culture of American yoga that the general response when suggesting yoga as a training method is either "That's for girls," or "But I'm not flexible." These responses were generated by an overall ignorance regarding yoga as a practice. Imagine, for a moment, a very large and muscular man with the soles of his feet together on the ground in butterfly pose. Now imagine that one man in a large room with twenty men much like him in the same yoga position. A scene like this is the new normal; entire sports teams and all other types of athletes are realizing the benefits of, and therefore adapting yoga to their training programs. Yoga is no longer just a class for women who want to feel more "grounded", but reformed into a vital tool for athlete training. The most notable effects can be seen in high-strung, often injured, National Football League players who may not be the first to say "Here!" on a yoga role call. The athletes, however, will experience benefits, such as quicker healing injuries, future injury prevention, and finally the creation of a more balanced mind in an athlete, which are just a few reasons yoga should be adopted as mandatory training in the NFL. While some players may feel reluctance due to the "girliness" of the...
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