Whether you are a fantasy owner, or simply just a fan of the NFL, you want to see the best possible players and teams on the field every Sunday. However, with many players being as injury prone as they are, this craving and the pressure that it places on the athletes themself is not safe at all. Whenever a player gets hurt, the teams athletic trainer does whatever it takes to try to get that player back on the field for the next game. The most popular painkiller that was used by trainers in the league was Toradol. This injection seems to numb away any pain and make a player feel great, but the players weren't aware of the potential internal bleeding until seconds before they were injected. This act of injections and putting players on the field with unknown injuries is not safe in the long run. Their injuries develop further through their days in the NFL, and when they get older and retire they are left with aches and pains that they will live with for the rest of their lives. It just doesn't seem fair.
The author of this source, Nate Jackson, was a professional football player himself who spent his career on the Denver Bronchos. Being a professional player at one time, Jackson obviously knows the ins and outs of what happens inside the locker room. In order to truly illustrate his problems with rejecting the painkillers, he compares an NFL team to a machine, by saying the the players are the different parts, and the trainers must try to keep those parts working because old and broken parts simply get thrown out and replaced. This analogy is able to truly describe the pressure put on athletes to do whatever it takes to get back in the game, and the pressure just doesn't seem right.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/opinion/painkillers-for-nfl-players-not-so-fast.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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