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Football concussions could be reduced, if Riddell's InSite system goes into play
"This is not a diagnostic tool." That's what Riddell, the country's largest manufacturer of football helmets, kept emphasizing during a presentation of its newly developed InSite head-impact monitoring system. The fact it would throw this disclaimer out there isn't surprising, really. After all, the topic involving concussions in the NFL is one that's been massively debated by many different entities, inside and outside of the sport, over the past few years. Most recently, PBS debuted a documentary titled League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis, in which it delved deep into the "hidden story" between brain injuries and the National Football League. But the problem itself goes considerably deeper than that: Here in the United States, the game is ubiquitously played across youth, middle school, high school, college and, of course, professional levels. And while both the NFL and NCAA have made rule changes in order to "protect" players by trying to minimize the number of hits above the neck, the same can't be said for lower-level leagues -- not to mention, there's only so much that can be done in a game which requires body-to-body contact at full speed during 15-minute quarters.
