NFL mandating new emergency procedures in case of player injury

With the new season starting up the NFL is once again pushing player safety. They are allowing players to choose their own helmet specially formed and fitted to the individual player.They are able to add and subtract as much padding as possible to make the fit snug, as well as molding each outer shell to personally fit each player’s head. Some even come equipped with special sensors that act as airbags to inflate at the moment of impact.

Future of any injured player.

Future of any injured player.

“We have tried to get all players on board with this concept but the fact remains that due to salary cap limitations, some players just can’t afford such luxuries,” Roger Goodell the NFL Commissioner is quoted as saying. He also adds,”So we have focused more on limiting the possibility of injuries by changing the rules and the way the game is played and our reaction to injuries when they happen.”

To start off, the NFL tried some new things in preseason. They tried to implement giving quarterbacks and key players that filled slots in the salary cap flags that they can wear. Instead of being tackled the apposing players would reach for the flag. “That was working well until we learned that players like Vick where actually sewing their flags on,” Goodell stated. They then issued red no tackle shirts for key players, until they realized that teams like The San Francisco 49ers would end up blocking for the opposing team’s key players instead.

So the focus stays on equipment and what to do when a player actually gets injured. A new rule change states that starting on the 8th of September any player being injured and down on the field for more than one minute must receive a full spinal immobilization and checked out by an emergency room not associated with the two teams playing. “We are trying to avoid players getting sent back out to play by morally corrupt Doctors on the payroll of the team. We are again looking out for the player here,” said Goodell. This would allow players to get the rest they need while assuring the health of the player by forcing them out of the game and into the hands of professional paramedics and emergency room doctors. Only private ambulance companies pre-approved by the NFL, with paramedics hand selected by Roger Goodell himself, will be allowed to work the games.

When questioned why Goodell would be personally overseeing such an enormous task he replied  with, “well, I just care that much.” One interviewer asked a follow up question stating that it was suspicious how Goodell would be the deciding factor of whether or not a player would return to the field, Goodell responded with,”that’s absurd, no more questions.” And the interview was over.

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