Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Is the NFL abusing the rules of "concussion's" when it comes to penalty flags and fines?

                   
  The NFL today is getting to hard on enforcing the concussion rules and NFL will be suffering as well,  the viewership will decline if the irrelevant calls continue.  The referees have become very strict when they call hits to head, it could have happened that the opponent could of gently tapped the player on the head and they would receive a 15 yard penalty. The NFL will than review the hit to determine whether or not the hit is worthy of a fine. The fine may be 10,000  dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars that the player would have to pay. Many times a simple touch or accidental hit to the head area can cause a massive fines ,suspensions and in many cases it has a huge impact on the game because they receive a 15 yard penalty. The sport of football is a very contact sport and in many cases these hits are impossible from preventing when already in action. If calls like these continue fans will not view the sport any longer because the referees will be controlling the game and choose who the winner and looser shall be. The Patriots tackle Vince Wilfork is a victim of these fines. As well as Rodney Harrison who played safety.
                  A referee should absolutely make an appropriate call when it comes to concussions. There are a very serious head injury that may or may not heal.  Players of all major sports receive a concussion and there is no real way to prevent them. According www.dosomething.org "Head trauma resulting in brain injury is the greatest killer under the age of 45 and the greatest cause of disability in people under 44. Brain injury's kill more children under age 20 than every other cause combined." A concussion is very grave injury and should be treated immediately. But when the player gets called for these types of penalty and the opponent was no where near to obtaining a concussion the call was useless.

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