New rules to limit the NFL head injuries

HOUSTON (AP) NFL referees to protect more responsibility this season for the players of the first shell hit on the head and neck.
The league has expanded its rules to prevent defense of football jersey
players to take pictures on their shoulders. Groups of officials with the team in training camp together to discuss the changes.
Referee Walt Anderson, also the head referee of the Big 12, led a meeting with the Houston Texans on Friday. Commissioner Roger Goodell said he was very committed to find in discussions with the Committee of the league rules and referees for ways to limit the number of head injuries, while maintaining the integrity of the party.
The revised rules prohibit a player on the floor and enter using the helmet to a player in a defenseless position at the head and neck taken. The old rule applies only to the beneficiaries, beaten, but now applied to the whole world.
Anderson, one of 17 referees team leaders, said officials will closely monitor the receivers this season, and choose to care if the players are caught in vulnerable positions.
In recent years, said Mr. Anderson, the defensive players can hit receivers in the head when the recipient has got both feet on the ground. Now, officials of Houston Texans jersey
the receiver a split second longer, is basically in a place where he can defend, said Anderson.
Also new this season when a player lost his helmet, whistle blows the play is immediately. And now, into goals on the pitch and extra point attempts, the defense can not take place every player on the line directly above the gate, which is considered in a state of helplessness.
The NFL has already adopted the book of rules to protect players from concussions and their effects.
The league has stringent guidelines for the return to players they suffer implemented, and each team should consult an independent neurologist, when a head injury.
Anderson said that medical experts established the effects of concussions, the referee at a meeting this year the rules.
Anderson said the company will monitor the impact of Green Bay Packers jersey
the new rules in the season finale, and then judge whether they are effective enough to have to limit injuries.
Anderson expects further changes in the rules of the shocks in the coming years. One day he sees the use of arbitrators helmets.