Football Informative Essay

Injury plague in the NFL catalyst for greater innovation The game of football is still in its infancy. The invention of the forward pass and its official adoption in 1906 is proof positive that fundamentally the game has room to advance. "By all accounts, the forward pass was the invention that saved the game of football after a great rugby player from Yale in the 1880s, Walter Camp, pioneered rules changes that slowly transformed rugby into the new game of American Football." –Birth of Pro Football Player safety has been the catalyst for football evolution. A fact currently supported by the NFL's 1st and Future initiative dealing with this very topic and others. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell @nflcommish gets booed often but, in my opinion, he was right to legislate the violent hits out of the NFL. The wave of change has now begun and history seems to be repeating itself. "Former NFL players' settled a 1 billion dollar lawsuit that accused the NFL of hiding the risks of repeated concussions in order to return players to the field. The deal avoids the need for a trial and means the NFL might never have to disclose what it knew, and when." Safety innovation remarkable influence on the NFL's killer past The precedent for this next wave of innovation was set by events that triggered the forward pass well over 120 years ago. "After several serious and fatal injuries resulting from close formation offenses, protests came from men in high places...even President Theodore

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