Stephen Rueda
FIL 185.3
February 9, 2015
Response Essay #1
Concussions in the NFL
The NFL season just ended with the Patriots winning Superbowl XLIX but they didn’t
win without any controversies. Throughout the years the NFL have been through a bunch of
controversies that has given the league a bad image to the public. Although, the one thing
that is hurting the National Football League the most are the legal issues with concussions.
Concussions from playing years in the NFL can cause Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy,
which is a disease that debilitates the brain and some claim that it has caused some retired
football players to have severe emotional distress. There have been almost 1,300 ex NFL
