Story of the week

A football player on the St. Louis Rams quarterback gets a concussion during the game and he keeps playing. Case Keenum gets hit hard during the Rams' game against Baltimore Saturday night with 1:14 left in the game. Keenum hit the back of his head against the ground and bouncing. Keenum stayed down on the ground holding his head and he felt dizzy and was wobbling. Keenum was allowed to play the last two downs before the Rams lost the ball and the Ravens got a field goal and won the game. Keenum was not diagnosed with a concussion until 30 minutes after the game. The St. Louis Rams coach Jeff Fisher had told reporters that he expected to put Keenum through "a good week of practice" for the next game. "The fact of the injury to St. Louis Rams Case Keenum and why he wasn't removed from the game for the necessary evaluation by the team physician or the unaffiliated neuro-trauma consultant as required by our concussion protocols," the NFL said in a statement.

I think that it is a big deal because when a player gets a concussion the coach or the team physician should be taken out of the game. Any player that gets a concussion or gets knock down hard should leave the game and get tested for a concussion. The coach for the St. Louis Rams should have took the quarterback out of the game to get look at by the team physician. The quarterback should not have continued to play and the team physician needed to take him out of the game. The quarterback should have left the field with a teammate to get examined by the physician. It is a big deal because concussions are dangerous and they need a lot of time to heal and the player that got a concussion should not play until the concussion is completely gone.