Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Injuries!


Injures in sports today are very common and always expected; especially in physical sports such as football, hockey, and boxing. In all sports player(s) will get banged up with a few bumps and scrapes, but again that part of the game.  Tennis players don’t have protection to keep them safe; the only protection to me that can save them from getting hit by the ball is the rack. Extreme sports play like skate boarding, BMX riding, and rollerblading will get hurt badly with the little protection they have. I was watching the X-games one day and this skate boarding was on this high ramp, and he had so much speed flying high in the sky. He was doing a 360 and he didn’t catch his board on time and he fell straight on the ramp ground. He was hurt so badly. That’s how dangerous extreme sports are. To me the most dangerous sport is NASCAR.  Going around a track with only a helmet while they are in their car is dangerous. Player(s) have died, got badly hurt, or burned while racing. Its seriously, our players or teams should be protected and safe. The most common injury in sports is tearing of the ACL. When the ACL is messed up sometimes you can’t play anymore. The new rules that were enforced its impossible for the game to be played with the enthusiasm of the players and the excitement from the fans. Now the rules are good; it keeps the players safe and protected. In the NFL, if a player is got hit while he is in the air catching the ball is a penalty now, but some of the rules like you can’t hit the quarterback at a certain time are ridiculous. My view is if you can’t hit them; they shouldn’t be playing. They have as much protection from their offensive of line, so it’s okay for them to get tackled. If every player is protected and the rules get better then their wouldn’t be so many injuries in sports.

2 comments:

  1. You did a nice job covering a variety of sports and their different forms of protection (or lack thereof). I definitely agree with you about some rules being completely unnecessary. Some sports really should require more protection, but others should have less. A good blog post for sure.

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  2. This was a great start here on sports injuries. But go a bit further (and perhaps break up the big paragraph into multiple paragraphs). What's an ACL? Where is it? I agree--this is a very common injury. Does a particular source say it's the "most" common? Which source is that?

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