Zavier Bacote Essays (657 words) - Helmets, Sports Equipment, Sports

Zavier Bacote ENG 111 Sarah Bruton 16 January 2018 Rhetorical Analysis Draft In the article, Football Helmet IP Goes Head to Head by Kevin Rieffel, He explains the history and technology that goes into preventing concussions and in the future CTE. Football Helmets are a very important piece of equipment and the most expensive piece of equipment that is used to protect football players heads when it comes to impact on the football field. Kevin Rieffel, a chief counsel for Patent Consulting Services with TechPats, in Philadelphia (Rieffel 11), is involved in patents for football helmets and other football equipment. But mainly they work on finding ways to upgrade the football helmet in many ways in technology so finding more ways to prevent concussions and CTE from ever happening to another football player ever again. Rieffel for many years have wrote number of publications and blogs on technology for football equipment and ways that the sport of football could be rid of concussions, and he feels that the technology researchers are working on could really be the help that the sport of football needed to crack down the concussion issue that is a problem for the game of football all over the world. In another article called Tackling Concussions by Kevin Ryan, he talks about the life long effects that can be caused when hit hard enough in the head from critical impact from another football player, and the importance in having updated equipment. A helmet called the Zero1 is one of the safest helmets that could've been created . Made by a company called Riddell, the Zero1 helmet is one of their safest helmets it has passed many safety test with the highest number. A company that provides the NFL with 90% of their helmets one helmet surpasses them all (RYAN). The Zero 1 may not be the most stylish looking helmet in the world but it's guaranteed that it will allow you to have a long and healthy football career. And I can guarantee that many football players will take health of having the best looking helmets. Football players like Richard Sherman, and Alex Smith have already worn the helmet and both have they have never worn a more comfortable a safe helmet they have ever worn. The Zero1 price range is around $1,500 which is fairly good for a helmet that has advance technology and is a 99 percent concussion proof helmet. As a former high school football player the Zero1 is a great helmet to wear if you want to prevent concussions. As a young child playing the sport of football can become very dangerous because of the young kids brains not fully being developed, and if they get a concussion it could lead to more severe problems. That's why the Zero 1 should be the main helmet younger football leagues should wear and every school that provides football for ages 19 and lower. Kevin Rieffel , and Kevin Ryan both researchers and helpers to the cause to preventing concussion in the game of football. An injury that is so common and hard to stop will need many researchers such as the people mentioned to find new ways and new technology so that the youth and the future of the sport can be safe as possible, and however long it takes to find that way to prevent such an injury will be worth it in the near future. WORK CITED RYAN, KEVIN J. "Tackling Concussions." Inc, vol. 39, no. 8, Oct. 2017, pp. 34-35. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.faytechcc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=truedb=a9hAN=124964182site=eds-live. Rieffel, Kevin. "Football Helmet IP Goes Head to Head." IP Litigator, vol. 22, no. 6, Nov/Dec2016, pp. 11-13. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.faytechcc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=truedb=a9hAN=119908073site=eds-live.