Sentences with phrase «at football helmet»

Although you can also look at football helmet ratings, the NOCSAE cautions «against an over-reliance on any individual data point, rating or measurement which could lead to inaccurate conclusions or even a false sense of security that one helmet brand or model guarantees a measurably higher level of concussion protection than another for a particular athlete.»

Not exact matches

After some playful banter with senior pastor Joe Champion - who asked the former Florida Gator to don a football helmet from his alma mater, Louisiana State University - Tebow began answering questions about his faith and how his openness about it has become a frequently dissected topic in sports and society at large.

I am a huge sports fan.I love nfl and college football i never get enough of it.I am a big soccer [the other football] fanatic.I like basketball, hockey, some baseball and rugby.I am a big jersey buyer i have a lot of jerseys mostly of american football and soccer.I love the strategy of football i think it is fascinating.I have been a falcons fan since 1990 when the went to all black helmets and jerseys i was a fan because of that and because of primetime deion sanders.I have been a falcons fan through thick and thin win or lose they are my team regardless of how they do.I hope to one day visit Atlanta and see them play at home in Georgia.I hope to one day see them bring back black jerseys as the home colors.I am still a fan of the run n shoot offense i truly believe it can work in the nfl if ran and merged with some two back formations and a one back three wide one tight end formation.

Let's take Odell Beckham Jr.: As of writing this, a signed, reflective football card can be had for $ 80 on eBay; a signed rookie card with a patch of jersey in it is being bid at $ 107.50 with four days left; and a third - party authenticated, full - size helmet signed in silver paint pen is $ 269.

Like Butler, and the CEOs of many of the helmet sensor companies, I have called on NOCSAE to modify, if not completely reverse, its decision, at least with respect to the installation of lightweight sensors in football and other helmets that I know first - hand from my experience with the Shockbox sensor, have no effect whatsoever on the performance and structural integrity of a football helmet.

I recognize that NOCSAE's decision may have some technical merit; and that it may be to some degree be necessary to protect the integrity of its helmet standard by weeding out what one football helmet representative characterized in an email to me as «snake oil salesmen» marketing supplemental padding products that, despite their overblown claims, likely do little if anything to reduce, much less prevent, concussions, and may, at least in theory, compromise the ability of football helmets to protect players as the manufacturers intended.

a. of NFHS's rule entitled «Mandatory equipment» states, in pertinent part, that a participating football player must «wear a properly fitted helmet... which shall be professionally manufactured and not altered to decrease protection,... [and] which met the NOCSAE test standard at the time of manufacture.»

The presentation on USA Football's Heads Up program - a program designed to teach kids, and, more importantly, the coaches who teach the kids, how to tackle in a way that minimizes helmet - on - helmet and helmet - on - body contact, and one of the four steps in its Four Step Game Plan for improving football safety - was definitely worth hearing about and is a big step in the right direction towards taking the head out of football, although, again, I couldn't help but ask - at least to myself - what took them so long: teaching heads up tackling is something that MomsTEAM and one of our bloggers, former pro football player Bobby Hosea, have been promoting for at least fouFootball's Heads Up program - a program designed to teach kids, and, more importantly, the coaches who teach the kids, how to tackle in a way that minimizes helmet - on - helmet and helmet - on - body contact, and one of the four steps in its Four Step Game Plan for improving football safety - was definitely worth hearing about and is a big step in the right direction towards taking the head out of football, although, again, I couldn't help but ask - at least to myself - what took them so long: teaching heads up tackling is something that MomsTEAM and one of our bloggers, former pro football player Bobby Hosea, have been promoting for at least foufootball safety - was definitely worth hearing about and is a big step in the right direction towards taking the head out of football, although, again, I couldn't help but ask - at least to myself - what took them so long: teaching heads up tackling is something that MomsTEAM and one of our bloggers, former pro football player Bobby Hosea, have been promoting for at least foufootball, although, again, I couldn't help but ask - at least to myself - what took them so long: teaching heads up tackling is something that MomsTEAM and one of our bloggers, former pro football player Bobby Hosea, have been promoting for at least foufootball player Bobby Hosea, have been promoting for at least four years!

I wanted to ask them for their reaction to a recent survey of college athletes in contact and collision sports at the University of Pennsylvania which found that, despite being educated about the dangers of continuing to play with concussion symptoms, most are still very reluctant to report symptoms because they want to stay in the game, and to comment on reports that the N.F.L. players» union was against putting sensors in helmets that would alert the sideline to hits of a sufficient magnitude to cause concussion, which may be the technological solution (or, in football parlance «end - around») to the chronic under - reporting problem.

However, researchers who have collected impact sensor data for years, including Dr. Stefan Duma, who runs the biomedical engineering department at Virginia Tech and helped develop the STAR helmet rating system, were quick to say that the league was being too careful, and that, while not perfect, even with a 10 to 20 percent error rate, the sensors were valuable and give reasonable data that is useful, not only in football, but in analyzing head hits in sports like soccer and hockey.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

Also, football programs should not put all their helmets eggs in one basket: because one size does not fit all, they should offer at least two different types of helmets to ensure proper fit.

To determine which type of football helmets and mouth guards are associated with a lower incidence and severity of concussions in high school football players, McGuine and his colleagues worked with certified athletic trainers (ATCs) to collect data on 2,288 players at 36 public and private high schools in Wisconsin during the 2012 and 2013 football seasons.

Some football helmet manufacturers suggest that players who wear their helmets - especially new models - may be at lower risk of concussion than those who wear competitors» models or older helmets, basing their claims on how well the new or newer helmets absorb and lessen some of the impact forces that cause concussion in biomechanical studies performed in the controlled environment of the laboratory.

On August 13th, 2013 the National Athletic Trainers» Association released an official statement regarding the calling of crown of the helmet violations in an effort to ensure sports safety at every level of football participation and with the start of preseason games and practices soon underway.

Meanwhile at Purdue University, researchers studied the issue of sub-concussive blows by putting sensors in the helmets of Lafayette, Ind., high school football players for two seasons.

Limiting contact at football practices could be pivotal in reducing youth head injuries, according to the latest collaborative helmet research effort released Monday by two universities.

Jeffery Miller, Senior Vice President for Player Health and Safety Policy at the National Football League, testified in Washington that while «football has earned a vital place in the rhythm of American life,» helmets for players have not caught up to what is necessary to protect Football League, testified in Washington that while «football has earned a vital place in the rhythm of American life,» helmets for players have not caught up to what is necessary to protect football has earned a vital place in the rhythm of American life,» helmets for players have not caught up to what is necessary to protect players.

Only a handful of football players at high schools in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma are also testing the helmets, Broglio says.

Despite prices, promises and even ratings systems, all helmets approved for high school football players appear to offer similar protection against concussion, according to a new study from the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Still, eliminating head injuries from football or other contact sports could prove exceedingly difficult, says Gary Solomon, a neuropsychologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. «I don't think we're ever going to have a concussion - proof helmet.»

WHEN the 2013 National Football League season kicks off in the US next month, players will have an added layer of protection to go with their helmets and shoulder pads: an independent neurologist at every game to assess them for signs of concussion after receiving a blow to the head.

Tom DeGraw talks matter - of - factly about the 11 - year - old boy who threw a helmet at him while he refereed a football game, and the time a fight broke out at another game and police officers charged the field with clubs drawn to separate angry parents.

Everyone has a beaming personality which can't help but make the people sternest of shooter fans chuckled at turtles wearing football helmets.

As for my memory, The best one I think has to be when I wrote to then - coach Genes Stallings at The University of Alabama to see if I might possibly be able to get a used football helmet for my husband for Christmas (he is a big Bama fan).