I am reading a book called NFL: A league of Denial and it takes you through football history while attempting to expose the NFL by claiming that they have been covering up evidence that their players have had severe injury's specifically to the head and that they have done nothing to prevent it. In the book they uncover this evidence while imposing their own view of how the game should be played and governed in modern day.
The general argument made by Author's Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru is that the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, sought to cover up and deny mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage. They write "Everyone knew that football is violent and dangerous. But what the players who built the NFL into a $10 billion industry didn’t know – and what the league sought to shield from them – is that no amount of padding could protect the human brain from the force generated by modern football; that the very essence of the game could be exposing these players to brain damage". In this passage the Fainaru brothers are suggesting that no padding can protect players, in order to stop these injurys the NFL must restrict players from eccessive contact.In conclusion the Fainaru Brothers belief is that the NFL should institute rules that penalize, and fine players who excessively hit or block another player.
In my view there is no way for me to disprove their reseach because what they found is true, football is dangerous. Wait a second, Didn't already know that? Football has been dangerous since the day the pioneers of the sport first stepped on a gridiron! That is what brought this sport to become the most popular in America. What I think they are completely wrong about and I disagree with is the fact that they want to change the way the game must be played, which is rediculous, hundreds of players have stepped up and said they know what the signed up for. For example, Ray Rice, a veteran running back in this league who is gets pounded nearly every play of his career said " every player since day one has been taught go into every play like its your last, because it just might be, thats what football means to a player and we should not penalize players due to these injury's. “This has been a game I’ve been playing my whole life man. I understand all the health precautions and everything that goes along with it, but you don’t play the game to be scared, but at the same time, you know the risk you’re taking by going out there and I’m one of the few, that I’m willing to go out there and take that risk because i know what i signed up for". More specifically I believe that football should be played the way the pioneers designed it to be, with of course modern equipment and technology added. Although the Fainaru brothers might object that this brute sport is not fit for a child to grow up playing I maintain that i wouldnt want my son to miss the sport of football for anything, Football is the sport that taught be to be tuff, responsible, coachable, it taught me to be a leader, how to work with others and most importantly it introduced me to a brotherhood bond that cannot be broken, i wouldnt even allow my son to miss out on that oppurtunity. Therefor I conclude that players should not take kindly to what the Fainaru brothers are saying in this book, they are starting an outrage that in my opinion this sport does not need and slowly but surely it is ruining the sport alot of us call our passion.
I determined that this is a relevant source to my topic because this book breaks down the NFL from the very start of the league and explains how the NFL is responsible for taking care of its players. The fact is that this book would not have been written if it wasnt for technology. Without modern technology these players injurys would not have been discovered, this outrage would have never been started. Modern medicine in the NFL is single handedly the biggest thing technology has developed and in doing so it has changed the game itself, its players, and our society indefinitely. I determined its relevance to my source when I saw a similar documentary that the Fainaru brothers had directed using examples from many veteran players and coaches, something i also wanted to put a big focurs on in my research paper
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