National: Obamacare Campaign 2012 & 2012 Economic Recovery
Local: Pop Warner Rule Changes Regarding Concussion & Practice & Highly-Rated FSU Recruit Gives Up High School Football Because of Concussions
Although a global controversy in its own right, the
surrounding influences at a global, national, and local level all affected the
course the NFL concussion crisis took. The following news stories are
respective to the time period in which the crisis was at the pinnacle of
controversy, when a ruling was to be made regarding the lawsuit filed against
the NFL by the players which resulted in a myriad of health-care benefits (perhaps
inspired by Obamacare) for players and a billion-dollar settlement paid to
them. The economic recovery bolstered the NFL’s desire to return to normalcy
and rid them of this monumental controversy as people had money in their
pockets, which meant there was more money to be spent on the league. At a local
level, even before the ruling, highly touted recruits and youth football were
being drastically swayed away from the violence of football. The insanity
controversy and rejection of football from the Olympics also cast the NFL’s
previous negligence in a negative light and made the move to resolve the
controversy more aggressive in nature. The accumulation of surrounding events and the influential environment played a role in the resolution to the concussion controversy.
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