2008 Woodie Awards
Several NFL Teams Plagued by Injuries
NFL teams face challenges as key players suffer serious injuries early on.
Juan Bernal
Issue date: 10/21/05 Section: Sports
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In football, the most appealing thing to look at is the bone jarring tackles that players make consistently. It's part of the football grind. Players get tackled, hit, battered, banged, obliterated, pummeled.
However you want to put it, there are no two ways around the fact that football is a punishing sport. The grind that football takes on your body is physically, mentally and emotionally - and the results show.
Almost 186,000 children were taken to hospitals or emergency rooms due to football injuries, according to a recent study by the American Association of Pediatrics (AAP).
There are many theories and myths behind football injuries. Some of them have to do with the technological advancements that are made in sports.
Others regard that the advancements that are being made in weight training are just getting out of control. Everyone is bigger, faster and stronger, and if you are going up against that play after play, that likely increases your chance for injury.
The average NFL career lasts four years. The more that one plays football, the higher one's chances are to experience some kind of pain when aging. Many ex- NFL players suffer chronic pain in their knees, ankles and other joints all over the body.
ESPN the Magazine recently featured the story of a player whom all those injuries he suffered during his career lead him to suffer from depression and bipolarity.
Many key players on teams have been lost to injuries, whether it be for the season or just an indefinite period of time. Atlanta Falcons quarterback, Michael Vick, sat out Week 5 versus the New England Patriots because of an injured knee.
Eagles quarterback, Donovan McNabb, has been playing most of the season with a bruised chest and a bad abdominal muscle.
McNabb's colleague Terrell Owens played last season's Super Bowl with a broken leg despite specific demands from his doctor that he not play because if he were to re-injure it, it could have ended his career.
However you want to put it, there are no two ways around the fact that football is a punishing sport. The grind that football takes on your body is physically, mentally and emotionally - and the results show.
Almost 186,000 children were taken to hospitals or emergency rooms due to football injuries, according to a recent study by the American Association of Pediatrics (AAP).
There are many theories and myths behind football injuries. Some of them have to do with the technological advancements that are made in sports.
Others regard that the advancements that are being made in weight training are just getting out of control. Everyone is bigger, faster and stronger, and if you are going up against that play after play, that likely increases your chance for injury.
The average NFL career lasts four years. The more that one plays football, the higher one's chances are to experience some kind of pain when aging. Many ex- NFL players suffer chronic pain in their knees, ankles and other joints all over the body.
ESPN the Magazine recently featured the story of a player whom all those injuries he suffered during his career lead him to suffer from depression and bipolarity.
Many key players on teams have been lost to injuries, whether it be for the season or just an indefinite period of time. Atlanta Falcons quarterback, Michael Vick, sat out Week 5 versus the New England Patriots because of an injured knee.
Eagles quarterback, Donovan McNabb, has been playing most of the season with a bruised chest and a bad abdominal muscle.
McNabb's colleague Terrell Owens played last season's Super Bowl with a broken leg despite specific demands from his doctor that he not play because if he were to re-injure it, it could have ended his career.