Every week in the NFL players are leaving games due to hits to the helmet. This leaves them with major concussions or spinal injuries that keep them out for weeks at a time. Players have had careers ended due to too many head on collisions such as Troy Aikman, who was one of the best quarterbacks of the 1990s. Darryl Stingley was a wide receiver who played for the New England Patriots in the 1970s. This hit by Jack Tatum on Stingley left Darryl paralyzed as a quadriplegic, confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life up until his death in 2007.
With more and more terrible injuries happening in recent years the NFL has joined up with The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at the Boston University School of Medicine to do experimental research on the effects of these hits. Over 20 current and former NFL players have agreed to donate their brian and spinal cord tissue to science upon death so that researchers can study the effects of repeated head trauma on the nervous system.
With this experimental research, the NFL is hoping to one day find a cure of how to prevent so many terrible injuries. If a cure can be found it can prevent many future horrific injuries.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Surveys Among Athletes
In the world of professional sports, respect among your fellow peers is a hard thing to get. After battling the same guys, day after day, week after week, year after year, it is hard for everyone to like each other. Even some of the best players in the league get hated on by their fellow athletes. Every year Sports Illustrated runs a survey among ball players to find out how they feel about the league as a whole.
In the 2010 version of the Sports Illustrated NFL Players Survey, 239 professional football players voted Bengals WR Terrell Owens, the most overrated player in the NFL. Owens career numbers include over 1,000 career catches, over 15,000 years, and nearly 145 career touchdowns. Those numbers rank him among the best of all time! It may be more of T.O.'s off the field behavior that his peers don't like. Owens is notoriously known for tearing about locker rooms as he has been on many teams during his career. The rest of the top five overrated football players includes Tony Romo, Mark Sanchez, and Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning.
In the 2008 Sports Illustrated MLB Players Survey, 495 professional baseball players voted New York Yankees legend Derek Jeter the most overrated player in the sport. That is just ridiculous. Jeter is a five time world champion in the sport and arguably a top five, maybe even top three Yankee of all time. If anything Jeter is one of the more underrated athletes because everything he does in my opinion, doesn't get enough credit. Rounding out that top five were All-Stars Alex Rodriguez and David Wright.
What does an All Star have to do to get some respect?
In the 2010 version of the Sports Illustrated NFL Players Survey, 239 professional football players voted Bengals WR Terrell Owens, the most overrated player in the NFL. Owens career numbers include over 1,000 career catches, over 15,000 years, and nearly 145 career touchdowns. Those numbers rank him among the best of all time! It may be more of T.O.'s off the field behavior that his peers don't like. Owens is notoriously known for tearing about locker rooms as he has been on many teams during his career. The rest of the top five overrated football players includes Tony Romo, Mark Sanchez, and Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning.
In the 2008 Sports Illustrated MLB Players Survey, 495 professional baseball players voted New York Yankees legend Derek Jeter the most overrated player in the sport. That is just ridiculous. Jeter is a five time world champion in the sport and arguably a top five, maybe even top three Yankee of all time. If anything Jeter is one of the more underrated athletes because everything he does in my opinion, doesn't get enough credit. Rounding out that top five were All-Stars Alex Rodriguez and David Wright.
What does an All Star have to do to get some respect?
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