Safety Related Articles

• Special Feature from Xenith - "Building the Enlightened Warrior"
• Safety First – Getting On The Same Page
• Safety First – Culture Shift: Changing the culture of football to reduce violent injuries.
• Safety First – Contact In Practice – Is It Worth It?
• Safety First – Training for Safety
• Safety First – Stronger Necks = Fewer Injuries
• Buckle Up
• Knowing the signs of concussion will help you protect your players.
• The Safety Rulebook
• Safety First – Teaching safe tackling technique can reduce head and neck injuries and help protect the game’s future.
• Coaching to Make the Game Safer
• Your Take – Get the Head Out of Football
• The Heat Is On – In the hottest months of the year, coaches need to watch for any signs of heat illness.
• Your Take – Risky Business
• Making the Game Safer
• Tackle Safe – Bobby Hosea’s pioneering tackling technique protects players from devastating head injuries.
• Your Take: Time To Get Enlightened

The number one priority of every coach at every level must be the safety and well-being of their players. Fortunately, we know that the vast majority of coaches share this viewpoint.

It is particularly important today that coaches have information about how to protect players’ safety and have resources that can lead to coaching practices and techniques that will decrease, if not eliminate, serious player injuries.

That’s why AFM and Xenith have teamed up to create the "Safety First" campaign to make football a safer game. We believe that safer football is better football, and it’s our goal to help coaches do everything they can to ensure that player risks and injuries are minimized.

Please use the links to the left to access AFM articles and other resources designed to inform coaches about ways they can help protect football by making it safer for players at all levels. And look for new Safety First articles in upcoming issues of AFM.