Concussions in football are an extremely serious injury and are being taken very seriously by the NFL. Now, EA Sports is jumping on and taking these injuries just as serious.
The video game, Madden 12, will no longer allow concussed players to return to the field in the game they are injured.
EA Sports will be trying to send a message that concussions are a serious thing, and athletes who suffer one in a game shouldn't be allowed to return the same game they are injured.
Brain injuries are one of the biggest issues in the NFL right now. According to NFL data, 154 concussions happened in practices or games from the start of the preseason through the eighth week of the 2010 regular season. That is an increase of 21 percent during the same span in 2009, and a 34 percent increase from the 2008 season.
In an interview with The Times, Phil Frazier, the game's executive producer, the new concussion rules, exclusion of helmet-to-helmet hits and headfirst tackling can be a "teaching tool" to players of the game, especially kids.
Madden NFL 12 is scheduled to be released in August, even if the current lockout continues.
- Sal LaFata
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