Football injuries: Is the NFL’s Collective Bargaining Agreement putting players at risk?

Football is a violent sport, where players accept great risks for great rewards. But could most devastating football injuries be avoided? In the evening hours of January 4, 2003, Will Allen’s shoulder collided with Willis McGahee’s knee in what is one of the more gruesome football injuries of the last 20 years. Thanks to numerous replays from ABC sports, American stomachs twisted over and over as the medical staff attended to McGahee. It was later discovered that he had torn his anterior cruciate ligament, posterior cruciate ligament, and his medial collateral ligament. If there was a way for a knee … Continue reading Football injuries: Is the NFL’s Collective Bargaining Agreement putting players at risk?