Many people who watch the National Football League games on Sunday afternoon, enjoy the game and teams playing in it. However, do they really know about the injuries that playing such a rough sport can have? ESPN has developed a show entitled Sport Science. Sport Science is more of an educational sports show, which examines every minute detail, down to the physics of every sport; whether it be baseball, or football. In this YouTube video, Sport Science is examining the concussion, the most prolific and predominant injury among the players of the NFL.
The host and CEO of Sport Science, John Brenkus delineates the medical and physics aspects of how concussions can be caused and how they are related to other professions. One startling statistic that is thrown out is that the number of concussions each year, in all levels of football, from the Local Middle School and Varsity levels, to College and Professional levels, has reached 100,000. Then, another one is that the amount of time that players missed football games, has also doubled in the past year. Now, when a player suffers a concussion, they miss about 5 days of playing football!
The force of the players, depends upon how fast they run into each other (quite blatant), and also how heavy the players are (again, quite blatant!) Just about a month ago, in October, the Army Black Knights were playing against the Scarlett Knights of Rutgers University, at the New Meadowlands Stadium. On the kickoff of the Second half, a member of the return team from Rutgers, Eric LeGrand, was severely hit, and became paralyzed from the waist down. He could not even feel his legs moving, as a result of the massive hit.
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