Professional football has always played a huge role in my life, it was considered a ritual for my whole family to gather around in our living room every Sunday night and cheer on our New York Giants. Concussion, a movie about the neural pathologist Dr. Bennett Omalu and his fight with the NFL about the effects of chronic traumatic encelopathy on professional football players, was released just last year and has already grasped my attention. After viewing the movie I realized that I no longer wanted to be a pediatrician, I wanted to be a neurologist and help prevent brain injuries specifically in the NFL. As one of the largest organizations around the globe, the NFL isn't doing enough to prevent their athletes from sustaining brain injuries. Just a few short months ago one of my best friend's mom died of lung cancer and she was just forty five years old. No one should ever have to lose a family member and I feel like I can promise the families of professional athletes that their children will be getting the proper medical care. The fact that I want to pursue this as a career, in my opinion, makes me qualified to write about this topic. I will find large amounts of medical research to help prove to football fans that these neurological diseases are ending lives. 

In the academic journal, "Solving the Concussion Problem and Saving Professional Football," Thomas Jefferson law review examines the legal protection that players are receiving if they suffer from a brain injury. This source specifically examines player Junior Seau, a former linebacker of the New England Patriots, who committed suicide from symptoms of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The journal explains that CTE is a neurological brain disorder and is caused by multiple concussive blows to the skull. Throughout the entire source there is mention of the many other professional football players who committed suicide, supporting the concept that these neurological diseases were not treated properly or if treated at all. It also addresses the many other lawsuits that were filed against the NFL but were just pushed under the rug, which supports the argument that the NFL didn't want to confess the truth about the deaths of their many athletes due to the fact that they would lose millions and millions of dollars in revenue. This source obviously contains a bias due to the fact that it was supporting the side of Seau's family, who lost a son. On the other hand, this source is credible because it was used during an actual litigation that was presented in court so it contains truthful and accurate information.

"Taking on the NFL: The Fight to Make Football Safer," was an article published in People magazine explaining Dr. Bennet Omalu's experience with the NFL. Omalu is a forensic pathologist who did an autopsy on Michael Webster, a former lineman of the Pittsburgh Steelers who died from a heart attack. Omalu's discovery proved that Webster had suffered from CTE. This article talks about how once Omalu published all of his findings about CTE the NFL attacked both him and his family as well as discredit all of his research. Towards the end of the article author, Johnny Dodd, addresses the concept that there needs to be just as much emphasis on the dangers of high school football. Dodd is a sports journalist and photographer which 

makes him well qualified to talk about issues in the sports industry. This article mostly contains no bias due to the fact that it is just telling Omalu's story but some bias may be present when disputing the issues concerning high school football.

In the journal article, "Helmet-to-Helmet Contact: Avoiding a Lifetime Penalty by Creating a Duty to Scan Active NFL Players for Chromic Traumatic Encephalopathy," Thomas Drysdale explains the direct relationship between CTE and concussions in NFL players. From medical research he concluded that the more concussions an athlete sustains the greater risk he has for developing symptoms of CTE. Drysdale also provided the new rules that have been implemented in the NFL to decrease the amount of head traumas that happens during the three hour game. He also uses medical research to prove that despite the changes that the NFL has made to the game, concussions and CTE are inevitable repercussions of having an NFL career. Drysdale is a credible resource due to the fact that he is a neurologist so he knows great detail about the brain and what happens to it once it is affected. This journal article contains no bias because it is simply stating definitions and providing medical research. 

There are two very distinct sides to this research question, either that the NFL is preventing concussions from happening or that they are not. Some people would argue that only a small number of athletes have died from CTE and that it was the their fault for not seeking the proper medical attention. Since brain injuries are such a big problem in the NFL the reader can side with Dodd when he says that there needs to be more emphasis placed on high school football and the repercussions that it can have on these athletes future. As for the disagreements the reader cannot really have any due to the fact that these three resources are either telling a story, revealing previous history, or defining medical terminology. 

