Head Injuries

Head injuries is a huge issue in football. This problem could be the sole reason that football is shutdown forever or changed so much that we would not be able to recognize it in the future. Head injuries are ten times worse than any other injury because for the most part a broken bone or pulled hamstring will not kill you. Head injuries could cause you to become paralyzed or even death. If it is not one specific moment that is bad it can be the fact that a football players hurts his brain little by little by playing for a long period of time. They can develop CTE or chronic traumatic encephalopathy which can cause memory problems or many other worse things. Football is a dangerous sport and if it wants to continue to thrive and be successfull they need to come up with theories to make it less dangerous without taking out the hitting because people like to see that. Whether it is to remove the facemask so the player is not so brave to go head first or trying to make head first hits illegal. As more and more information comes out about head injuries the closer football is to going down a windy path to failure.