Is Football a Dying Sport?

Violence, which came up in lecture, is a key part of the game of football and it always has been. When you are growing up and learning to play football, you are taught to be violent and be tough. People love watching big hits too. People would rather see a huge hit sometimes more than anything else when they are watching football. They even have sections on sportscenter called jacked up where they go over all the big hits from the weekend. Its coming to the point though that violence is something that is becoming in issue in football. There is new evidence that having a career in football is like getting into a car crash almost every single game. That kind of impact on the head can lead to a much shorter life and many other problems concerning the brain. Now that we have learned all this information players are now told to hit and play differently than they have ever before. Players are becoming more and more protected, which leads to more flags and fines that players have become very disgruntled over. A helmet to helmet hit can lead to a 25,000 dollar fine. Football is becoming less and less physical and if you take that out of football how can it survive. People watch to see it and if it is turning into something like flag football, no one will watch that. It is a real question whether football in 25 years will look anything like what we have today. As doctors learn more and more about the brain and study football players brains they will see that playing football is dangerous to your health. Its going to come into question whether playing football is something that should be going on in our country because it is leading to shortened lives in many pro athletes.