For the past decade, one of the biggest problems in football is the increase of concussion injuries. The NFL was hit with a lawsuit for $765 million by 4,500 ex NFL players. The reason behind this lawsuit is because of what some of these players have had to deal with after they had retired from the NFL. Some of these former NFL players now suffer from diseases such as dementia, Alzheimer’s and ALS, and a few have committed suicide. Most recently, Ex San Diego Chargers linebacker, Junior Seau, committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart in order for doctors to study what was going on in his brain.
The problem with this lawsuit is there is no particularly moving evidence. For all the court knows, these injuries could have happened when these players played in college. Also, there is nothing the NFL can really do about this situation other than change the rules of the game to make it safer, which they have over the past few years. And the problem with the rules changing is that the players constantly despise it and criticize the league for it, which does not help the players case. The question is, did these players know what they were getting into signing up and playing in the league, or were they mislead?
Now the question is how do parents feel about the situation and consequences of football. Will parents allow their children to sign up and play from a young age or will they not allow it to save their children from a risk of injury? And if fewer kids are able to sign up, how will this affect the league in the future as that number will likely increase over the next few decades.
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You’ve touched on a number of big issues here– and I’d encourage you to develop and expand each of your claims. A few questions to consider pursing:
1. What specific events started and then changed the conversation about head injuries? When, that is, did it go from a seemingly random set of specific injuries to a broad national conversation? This is a big question given our course themes: when did this issue become “public discourse.” (You could then identify a set of changes to that public conversation over the years).
2. You say that the evidence linking NFL play to head trauma was not “particularly moving.” Many disagree– in any case, you might study how different parties in the dispute use evidence, data, images, arguments, etc to try to shape the conversation about head injuries.
3. You say that parents may begin to keep kids out of the game. That’s another big issue–studying this you might be able to make some assessment about how public discourse (about risk) shapes practices–