Football is an extremely physical sport where there is a lot of contact especially head to head contact, which can cause many long term very painful problems in people's lives.  What should happen to the sport of football? Should something happen to the sport at all?  These are many questions that have been brought up by the general public, player, commissioners, league board members, scientists and doctors.  This problem has been extremely important and interesting to me because I have experienced six years of football.  I have experienced and seen many people experience concussions in the middle school and high school.  Finding out more about the causes and the effects of this injury since it has been so close to my personal life and it is a huge problem when it comes to the general public as shown by a movie coming out "Concussion" starring Will Smith.   Im qualified to write about concussions because I have experienced them first hand, as long as experiencing my friends and teammates with this injury.  This particular topic affects me because I strongly disagree with what is happening right now in football when it comes to rule changes because I do not believe the game should be changed as a whole.

Board, Editorial. "Football, So Beautiful for Fans, Scars Players With Dementia." The New York Times. The New York Times, 06 Feb. 2016. Web. 08 Feb. 2016.  This article is written all about how fans all think the game of football is so beautiful and how much they love watching the game.  It later goes onto to talk about how fans love watching hard hits but they don't understand the pain that the players go through, not just at the time but over long periods of times.  Players not only suffer from concussions from big hits but they also suffer from things as strong as dementia.  This article later goes onto to talking about "bell ringers" which are huge hits to the head also meant as a hit that is so hard it wakes the other person up.  It explains the difference of being and fan and a player because it is all fun and games looking at the game through a screen but being the player on the field receiving the blow to the head is not as fun.

Belson, Ken. "A Mishandled Concussion Leads to a Review of Protocol." The New York Times. The New York Times, 04 Feb. 2016. Web. 08 Feb. 2016. This article discusses the fact that concussions may not even be the worst part of the whole situation but it is how people treat the concussion once it is received.  Concussions are a very painful thing when they happen but seem players seem to be able to or simply just want to play through the pain because they don't want to come out of the game. This is the main thing that causes long term injuries because it is just like doubling the injury from the first place.  This article talks about how if players had the right treatment after being diagnosed with a concussion less problems would happen in the future like dementia or even causing people to take their lives.   Concussions and any other injury that happens to the human brain needs to be treated very carefully because that is the most important part of the body and that is what this article explains.  With the technology we have today people have much better chance of avoiding long term injuries.  

George. "The N.F.L.'s Next Play: Address Brain Trauma or Fade Away." The New York Times. The New York Times, 04 Feb. 2016. Web. 08 Feb. 2016.  This article is all about the fact that some people don't think that the National Football League is doing enough to protect players from concussions.  It discusses the fact that the NFL has not made the proper steps it needs to in cutting down on concussions and brain injuries for players and ex-players.  The concussion has made a few changes to the rules and the fining system but some people still feel as if that is not enough.  They feel as if the commissioner Rodger Goodell does not care very much about these injuries and that is why the article is titled fade away because some of the general public believes the Goodell things this situation will just blow over if he doesn't say anything or just ignores the problem that is going on.  Goodell is trying to avoid this situation because it brings negativity to his sport which leads to him making less revenue.

My idea or topic is extremely article because there are already so many sides already made up because there are so many different ways abut trying to fix the problem of concussions or just simply try to let it blow over, many different people have many different views on the situation. One of the disagreements that I found was the fact that people want to change the rules of the game.  One of the agreements that I had though was the fact that something does need to be done for the safety of players in the future.  To be able to make my paper longer I may need to focus on football as a whole instead of just the NFL.
