National Forensic League

theaters on December 15, 2015, and is about actual events that eventually led to the rule concerning the concussion protocol in the National Football Leauge. This film zeros in on the harsh reality of fighting against an extensive cooperation like the NFL and the pros and cons related to playing the action packed, fan favorite sport, ‘football. '…

and his last two years in Kansas City. Mike Webster’s brain was the first of many NFL players’ that were sent and used for research. After his death, Webster, followed by eight more former NFL players, were diagnosed with CTE by Bennett Omalu, a forensic neuropathologist.…

football players and obeying the law over the years in the league and it is no secret. Between drug use, weapon charges, and tax evasion there is no shortage of controversy to discuss and the news can’t get enough of it. However in recent years, and months specifically, there has been a large amount of controversy pertaining to the players and domestic violence. Even though domestic violence is not limited to the National Football League, the way the NFL has handled it has been what is under…

the sport and keeping the growth sustainable is to appeal to youth. In ten, fifteen or twenty years, the youth will be adults, they will get the current youth into the game and the cycle will continue. In order to do this, creating a developmental league and infrastructure is a must. Currently, in the four previous countries mentioned (China, India, Japan, South Korea), there are only 325 indoor and outdoor hockey rinks (2015 IIHF survey). For four, large countries, that is not enough rinks to…

Imagine waking up in an ambulance with no feeling in your legs and people screaming “ARE YOU OKAY”, when the last thing you remember was taking a handoff from the quarterback and running through a lane and players coming at you in almost slow motion. This is a part of my football story and how football forever has changed my life in daily aspects. From growing up my whole life playing football with my friends to recreational football for kids then High school football. After my football career,…

America uses sport as a vehicle to unite the country. Jay Coakley describes the connection as a way to maintain social solidarity, “As leaders at all levels seek to establish popular forms of identification… it becomes common to foster connections with national and regional sport teams and athletes” (Coakley, 2011, p. 74). Sport is used to bond citizens under one ideology and in the case of the Olympics the United Sates bonds behind their athletes. Sport also reproduces the ideals of the…

important as well, so by the time they reach the NFL they understand the importance of this topic. Finally I would put in place a very strict punishment within the NFLs organization. Technically right now there isn’t a “set” punishment that the league hands out, there a certain rules and game suspensions but it’s privately investigated and each crime has its own…

Imagine you are a professional hockey player in the National Hockey League, or NHL. You grew up around hockey and the sport became your lifestyle. You started playing it by the time you could walk and because you loved it, you stuck with it with one goal in mind: to be a player in the NHL. You weren’t the best athlete on the teams you played for, but you were still good enough to make them—and you were one tough player. Finally, you got the one thing you always wanted and an NHL team drafts you.…

Super Bowl ads are GoDaddy’s domain 1. The two-week pregame With so much money invested, brands are increasing their exposure prior to the game in the hopes of building up momentum and stretching out the period of relevance for each campaign. Honda HMC 1.04% already has raised eyebrows with its released spot for the Honda CR-V, in which a paunchier, older Matthew Broderick invokes the memory of Ferris Bueller, playing hooky from a film shoot around Los Angeles. The online video, telling a…

“Mayhem is everywhere,” according to All State, an insurance company, with a clear message in their advertisements: use us because your insurance provider will not protect your items to the extent that we will. All State has a series of ads where a man plays “Mayhem,” a character used to sit in for extraordinary, but possible, disasters while simultaneously narrating them with dark humor. The best example of All State’s Mayhem commercials is their 2013 Super Bowl Commercial, Mayhem Forbidden…