Sentences with phrase «deleterious effects the game»

Then there are the other existential threats to league, including CTE and the deleterious effects the game has on its players, oversaturation of the product from Thursday night and Sunday morning games created by the league's insatiable hunger for cash, and the changing tastes of audiences and how they consume television.

Not exact matches

Finding a way to reconcile two competing demands - minimizing contact in practice in order to reduce the number of concussions sustained and the number of hits players sustain over the course of a week and a season that emerging science, now more than ever, suggests may have a deleterious cumulative effect [26] on a player's cognitive function over the long term, while at the same time maximizing the amount of time in practice learning how to tackle and block without head - to - head contact - time that is needed to maximize the protective effect of proper tackling on the number of head - to - head hits players sustain in game action, which can not only result in concussion, but catastrophic neck and spine injuries - is challenging, but clearly not impossible.

Johnson takes no stand on the argument that the increasing use of violence and sex in the games and on TV is having deleterious effects on society, but he does note the drop in murder and crime generally that has occurred in tandem with the rise of the video game (and he might also have pointed to the drop in teenage pregnancies).