Overview Of The National Football League's Collective Bargaining Agreement

There is a misfit between individual and organizational values, largely due to the wide gap of relative power between the two levels. A stronger union will improve the organization’s public perception by addressing this misfit and realigning player and owner interests with one another. Furthermore, a more powerful union would be able to mandate third party research thus reducing the conflict of interest surrounding current NFL brain research. This independent research would provide more accurate results and allow the organization to better address player safety. Additionally, the players would benefit from an improvement in the ability to negotiate contracts and benefits for players.

Football is a violent game and every one involved in it knows that there will certainly be injuries. However, most injuries manifest themselves immediately, are orthopedic, not life-threatening, and with the help of nature and orthopedic medicine, will sooner or later heal. Injury to the brain is another matter.

Bargaining power of customers: The main objective is to look at the power of the consumer to affect pricing and quality. For any industry, the consumer has the ability to harm/ help financially any company. In the NFL, the games are mainly for the consumers (fans). In the NFL it is hard to have high bargaining power of customers because it doesn’t matter if the team plays terrible, the fan always will support his/her team.

Since American football star Michael Webster’s death, Nigerian-American physician, Bennet Omalu performed an autopsy that surprisingly showed his cause of death was from sever damage of the frontal lobe of Webster’s brain. What happened to Webster’s brain is now called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE, which is a degenerative disease. This “sickness” is due to the repeated impact of football related concussions. Since the discovery the NFL and all the players have taken serious repercussions in the attempt of lowering the amount of potential concussions. The sport of football might appear dangerous but now the safety measures have been and are still improving.

An NFL football player will endure somewhere between 900 to 1500 blows to their head over the course of a single season. With an immense amount of blows like this comes an immense amount of damage to a player’s brain. This extensive amount of brain damage has been decided, by Dr. Bennet Omalu, to result in chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Over the course of these discoveries and much controversy, the NFL has been targeted, denied all accusations, done very few things to lessen the risk of concussions in football, and the risks and number of concussions have steadily increased throughout the league’s

According to Dylan Bennett, most NFL players that know that most player that have medicine The National Football League (NFL) needs to change their policy on drug for players that have reason for them. One reason why they need to change it is so players that use prescription drugs can still play in the NFL instead of just being suspended and fine for taking their medication perceived by their doctor. This case will be shown because players have lost a large amount of time form their careers or have lost their careers due to the drug policy of the NFL. What is the NFL drug policy and when it came into effect? What are other sports drug policies?

709-735). This high occurrence rate suggests that sports regulatory boards must come up with more systematic techniques in protecting the players from a concussion and its consequences. Furthermore, the prevalence of concussions in contact sports, especially in football, proves that the NFL should admit that concussions are a serious issue in football. The obvious short-term effects of concussions, together with the prevalence of concussions in football, must have influenced the NFL regarding how they handle violence within football. Instead, the NFL continued to market the violence in

I. Introduction A. Attention Graber: For many people there is nothing better on a crisp cool Sunday afternoon, than sitting down and enjoying a good football game. The NFL, hosts usually the football games people watch. Recently, however the NFL has had a huge conflict on its hands regarding player health and safety, specifically regarding repeated head injury and concussions. Research indicates, the NFL has not done enough to protect its players from the damage of repeated head injury B. Ethos Statement:

The fact that former and current NFL players are coming forward to express concern about the safety of their children potentially playing football points to the growing issue that

The salary cap in the National Football League is an excellent example of the system 's ability to level the playing field and create a more competitive league. The resulting effect on social

Football fans don’t want to loose their precious sport, but men are dying under age because of the long term brain injuries suffered because of the malicious sport. Its imperative that people realize how they are affected physically, mentally, and emotionally after their football career is over. Retired players suffer from many types of injuries after their career. Some of which are broken bones, paralyzed, missing fingers or toes, etc. However, the most common is dementia.

Carson Simpson Mrs. Gallos English 3 Honors 24 April 2017 Concussions in Football Although football is a very popular sport, changes need to be made. There is a lot of research and data showing head injuries in football and how they hurt the players. The NFL tries to just sweep these cases away because they know it would hurt the popularity and economical support of the sport. Head injuries and concussions are the most popular injuries in football because of the fact that they are one of the most dangerous injuries a player could have.

Today, athletes are dying from injuries they receive while playing the sports they love. One such dangerous sport is football, one of America’s favorite pastimes. More research needs to be done to prevent the long term negative health effects of high impact sports injuries that include brain damage, short term memory loss, concussions, and possibly CTE. Thesis: Kids may get high impact injuries

It isn't a secret that football is a dangerous sport, one of the common injuries are concussions, even though helmets are worn. The cause of these injuries is due to head trauma which in turn causes concussions. Too many could cause an impact to the brain called degenerative brain disease.    "Each year in the United States, an estimated 1.1 to 1.9 million sports- and recreation-related concussions occur among children aged 18 years and younger. 1–3 Potential long-lasting effects of concussions on developing brains include decreased physical, cognitive, emotional, and sleep health."

3 Teenagers across us died within a span of 7 days from head injuries. From this detail, this proves that football can be more deadly than enjoyed. One San Francisco linebacker retired at age 24, Citing concerns about head injuries. “I just wanna live a long & healthy life, & I don’t want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise”. From this quote, I can now see that players are actually starting to see the cruelty and danger football causes.