{"id":12686,"date":"2015-06-24T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12686"},"modified":"2015-06-24T08:17:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:17:16","slug":"the-nfl-is-worried-about-head-injuries-so-it-may-ban-helmets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-nfl-is-worried-about-head-injuries-so-it-may-ban-helmets\/","title":{"rendered":"The NFL Is Worried About Head Injuries. So It May Ban Helmets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/062415_1215_TheNFLIsWor1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt Slater took a look at the steps that the NFL is taking to reduce head injuries in American football:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kick-offs have been moved further up the field and helmet-first tackles have been banned.<\/li>\n<li>These and other measures have reduced the rate of concussions by 36%, but there are still multiple concerns about brain injuries resulting from play.<\/li>\n<li>One idea is to ban helmets which give a false sense of security to players.<\/li>\n<li>While paradoxical, the hope is that by doing so players would be more careful in the kinds of risks they took.<\/li>\n<li>It would, for example, require the end of the three-point stance where the player&#8217;s feet and a hand are on the ground, with the crown of their head pointed towards the opposition.<\/li>\n<li>Players would instead likely stand upright, and there would be fewer crunches that are trademarks of the game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about what the NFL is doing, and how helmets came about in the first place over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/0\/american-football\/33167457\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/0\/american-football\/33167457\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Slater took a look at the steps that the NFL is taking to reduce head injuries in American football: Kick-offs have been moved further up the field and helmet-first tackles have been banned. These and other measures have reduced the rate of concussions by 36%, but there are still multiple concerns about brain injuries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/062415_1215_TheNFLIsWor1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12688,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686\/revisions\/12688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}