Serious injury in sport is always at risk however it seems in recent years there have been many head injuries and season ending surgeries. This past weekend Eric Legrand of Rutgers made a tackle on special teams and injured himself leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. Below is the link for the Legrand hit and you can see immediately that he is either knocked out or seriously injured.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxSQ5QGNytY&feature=related)
Also there were 2 big hits delivered by James Harrison in the Steelers vs. Browns game where there were some questionable calls of whether Harrison's hits were helmet to helmet but he injured Josh Cribbs and Mohammed Massaquoi. There are rules in place to prevent these kind of hits i.e. penalties and possible suspensions but, both Browns players left the game. Here is another interesting link which came out just a few hours ago today addressing the issue of all of these violent hits mentioning the Browns game as well as the Eagles and Falcons game the interview is from Ray Anderson VP of Football operations.
(http://ap.cjonline.com/pstories/20101018/722279687.shtml)
All in all there isnt too much to do in order to stop these violent hits and the severity of these injuries seem to continue to get worse with almost every instance despite the implementation of penalties and equipment which is supposed to help reduce concussions and serious head trauma.
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