I believe the NFL should allow players to play

First, please explain "illegal". Why is it in quotation marks? It seems that you think they are illegitimate calls, and illegal hits don't exist, but they do. Now, you ask what the point of helmets is if you can't be hit in the head. The helmets are for the occasions when people are hit in the head. This way, any injuries won't be as severe. Your question is kind of stupid. It's the same as asking what the point of having jails is if you're not allowed to commit crimes. The jails are there for when people do commit crimes. Just like the helmets are there for when you get hit in the head. It doesn't matter if it's illegal, people will get hit in the head, therefore, they have helmets to avoid more serious injury. Yes, your head is at the top of your body. I'm glad to see you can sing "Head, shoulders, knees and toes". Clearly you also learned the hand motions too. Now, I think by "lead with your head" they mean that you should think your plays through. Not run into the opponent head first. I ran into a couch head first accidentally, and trust me, it hurts. If people were running into each other head first, the NFL would be reduced to nothing. Anyone who ran the ball would end up injured because they'd be running full force into their opponent. I'm watching the Eagles playing the Giants right now (thank God the Giants are winning), and hits are made with the shoulder. Even following the line of thinking that "lead with your head" means to make your hits head first, then your head is LEADING your shoulder, and you make the hit with your shoulder. As to your limited time to think theory. Do you have any idea how many thoughts can race through your mind in those few seconds? To put it simply, we aren't currently capable of building a computer big enough to process at the same speed as a human brain. I am a hunter. I hunt mainly for pheasant, and I have even less time to react than a football player. When the bird flies up from nowhere, and sounds like a small gun going off, I have to: overcome the shock, pull up the gun, flip off the safety, put my finger on the trigger, aim, and fire. This has to happen in one or two seconds, and it has to happen perfectly. If it doesn't, the bird flies off unharmed. A football player has to do far less, and in far more time. Limited time isn't an issue because your brain is capable of the processing speed, and when you spend lots of time training to do that job, your brain also trains to react faster. People won't watch? Really? Where on God's earth does that come from? I'm sitting in a room full of people who freak out whenever I talk, especially when I trash the Eagles. I've already been hit (lightly and sort of jokingly) for talking. Trust me, people aren't going to stop watching because of the penalties, and ratings aren't going down. This isn't a game watched for the hits. Everyone I know who watches hates hits because it means that the play ended, and their team didn't get a touchdown yet. I can understand, however, that the penalties should be reviewable, and less expensive fines should exist. So, that issue should be dropped because we are in agreement there, and it is a poor argument at this point. Now for my arguments.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1st Providing penalties and fines is as an extra safety precaution should be fine. I think everyone should agree with this because if the players are getting injured, there's no game. If there's no game, then the penalties don't matter. We all know that there are already a high amount of injuries in football. If these penalties reduce that number, is it really that bad? The penalties don't eliminate hitting, they eliminate certain hits. Such as horse collar tackles. http://www.youtube.com... The video I posted applies here. If you watch that hit, you'll see it's not safe in any way shape or form. Hitting like that could kill. It's essentially a noose. Our necks aren't designed to take that much force. 2nd The sport may be a little less violent, but it's safer. I will be referring to hunting for this argument. I was small game hunting yesterday. I was hunting in a field for pheasant. There were people hunting in the woods to the edge of the field. They had, I'm assuming, three shells in their guns. This is the maximum. Now, I'd be fine if that number was reduced in the name of safety. At one point, there were so many shells fired off between the two or three people, I had shot raining down around me for thirty or forty seconds. It was harmless, but that much lead was unnecessary, and on a flatter plane could easily have torn a person apart. If there are less shells allowed in the chamber, people will be more careful with their shots because they can't take as many. Just to clear it up, this relates to the football hits because the shells in the gun are the amount of hits that can be made. Less hits that can be made means less injuries (lead flying around). 3rd Finally, my opponent's arguments aren't even addressing the resolution. The resolution states that the NFL isn't allowing players to play. I will rephrase this. With the NFL, players can't play. The first problem with this applies to the original resolution, and my rephrased resolution. If a player can't play, then their not a player. Therefore, the resolution can't be true. If the NFL doesn't allow players to play, then there are no players. This is, obviously, false. The next problem addresses the converse of the rephrased statement. The rephrased resolution is: With the NFL, players can't play. The converse is: Players can play without the NFL. This is a problem for you football fans. Without the NFL, there is nothing to watch, and this entire debate is void. Therefore, the resolution is fatally flawed. Finally, the NFL isn't stopping any player from playing the game unless the player makes a serious infraction. Therefore, they aren't stopping many players from playing. The converse is: they are allowing players to play. I await a response.