{"id":1979,"date":"2010-11-10T13:41:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T19:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2010-11-10T13:41:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T19:41:36","slug":"twis-safety-in-football-the-time-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-safety-in-football-the-time-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"T*W*I*S: Safety in Football &#8211; The Time is Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/content\/blogpost\/8607844\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1980\" title=\"Football collision 3\" src=\"\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Football-collision-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a>We are on board with the NFL, NCAA and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.highschoolot.com\/content\/blogpost\/8607844\/\"> USA Football <\/a>as they continue to put tighter restrictions on helmet-to-helmet hits as well as hits to defenseless players.\u00a0 The violence in football draws us to it, certainly, but the speed\u00a0at which the modern game is played adds an element of danger which is contributing to an alarming increase in concussions and other serious injuries.\u00a0 Something had to be done and we applaud these governing bodies\u00a0for taking steps to\u00a0reduce the number of\u00a0collisions which could potentially render a player permanently impaired.\u00a0 It is our hope that the NCAA will dovetail off this movement to also provide more protection\u00a0 in women&#8217;s lacrosse which has seen a spike in head injuries\u00a0over the past several years.\u00a0 We believe that all student-athletes deserve this\u00a0same type of\u00a0attention and protection from injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are on board with the NFL, NCAA and USA Football as they continue to put tighter restrictions on helmet-to-helmet hits as well as hits to defenseless players.\u00a0 The violence in football draws us to it, certainly, but the speed\u00a0at which the modern game is played adds an element of danger which is contributing to &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-safety-in-football-the-time-is-right\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}