"Each year, an estimated 135,000 children between the ages of 5 and 18 are treated in emergency rooms for sports and recreation-related brain injuries, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Athletes who have had a concussion are at increased risk for another one, leaving them vulnerable to potentially longlasting or permanent damage."
Football is not the only sport that athletes are getting brain damage from playing. Concussions can occur in hundreds of sports, including wrestling, baseball/softball, hockey, and soccer. And this is just a few. What really needs to be done is that these leagues need to be stricter on rules that could potentially put their athletes in danger. There needs to be stricter penalties on actions by athletes that were intentionally attempting to inflict trauma on the opposing player. Many would argue that there is a fine line between being aggressive and trying to inflict pain. The fact of the matter is that, say a linebacker leads with his helmet and causes serious brain damage to a quarterback, there needs to be more serious penalties by league managers, including fines.
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