The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/nfl/)
The American tradition of Thanksgiving is one filled with food, family and football. With eyes glued to the screen to watch the next touchdown, the dangers of football are often overlooked. From the National Football League to Cornell’s football team, concussions pose a great risk to football players.
The NFL’s refusal to adopt a bubble format and its lax enforcement of COVID-19 protocols jeopardizes the health and safety of players and staff across the league.
The NBA and NHL showed us how we could bring back sports in a pandemic while mitigating risk. The MLB proved that there will be COVID-19 cases if we resist using the bubble format. The NFL is throwing caution to the wind.
In terms of drama, it was rather lacking.
Baytech, founded by Robert Bayer ’57, has been awarded a grant by the NFL to develop better helmets for professional football players.
For some members of Cornell football, the NFL protests hit home especially hard.
A multi-year starter and former coach for Cornell, Bill Lazor sits in fourth place in the program’s record books for passing yards.
Fraser was just the third in conference history to receive four first-team all-Ivy nods.
Former member of Cornell football Chris Fraser ’16 has been preparing tirelessly for the NFL Draft this month. The punter tells the Sun about his journey up to this point what may be in store for him.
Speculative or not, football fans everywhere should be ecstatic at the possibility of Beast Mode’s return.