Football has been around in the United States for a little over a century now and is still one of the most popular sports.The major issue having to do with football is brain damage from blocking, tackling or etc. The players wear helmets, but even though they wear helmets does not mean it protects them from not having a head injury. Head injuries and brain damage are starting to become a big issue in the NFL, high school, college or maybe even little league football. Nate Jackson, a former NFL player, argues that the rules that help prevent brain damage are causing other issues and the helmet should have more protection than what it has. Lane Wallace, writer, argues that safety in the NFL needs to be improved to prevent these injuries. In…show more content… She starts off her article by discussing girls’ lacrosse how the rules are dramatically different from boys’ games. She states, “In addition, despite the less-aggressive nature and rules of the girls' game, girls' lacrosse has an in-game concussion rate only 15 percent lower than the boys.” Girl lacrosse players only have to wear protective googles, but if the head injury rate is almost high as boys then why do they not wear helmets? Wallace said there needs to be safer changes to these games, so no one can hurt for life. She says in order to to improve the safety the athletes playing these sports must know the high-risk behaviors that can cause serious injuries. During her article she mentions John Adams, a British researcher, who says safety equipment will not reduce the safety. Wallace mentions that Adams mentions “risk compensation” which is when “humans respond to additional safety equipment by taking greater risks than they did when they felt less protected” (Wallace). He says, “while seat belts unquestionably gave a person better protection if they were in a collision, the chances of being in a collision went up in places with seat belt laws, because seat-belted drivers took more risks in how they drove.” Which means people think since they have their seat belt on they can do more risky things when they are driving
