NFL Safety Chairman Comments on Possibility of League Playing Without Helmets

June 20, 2015   ·   Matt Fitzgerald   ·   Jump to comments

Seeing players in the National Football League in action without their sleekly designed helmets would certainly be bizarre, but such a spectacle could become reality in the future.
BBC Sport's Matt Slater reported Thursday what NFL health and safety advisory commission chairman Dr. John York said about the possibility of players not wearing helmets as a means of actually enhancing player safety.
"Can I see a time without helmets? Yes," said York. "It's not around the corner, but I can see it." 
Abolishing helmets could discourage players from hurling themselves as hard at opponents. York also mentioned how the three-point stance would likely become extinct and would totally alter how football is played at present.
Former NFL running back Earnest Byner weighed in on York's comments:
Concussions have been among the most hot-button issues in all of major professional sports, and the violent collisions in pro football lend to such traumatic head injuries.

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