Among one of the odder wars between the NFL and their own players this season has been the recent ban on NFL teams supplying smelling salts and other ammonia-style inhalants by the NFL, which frustrated a lot of players.
It started on Tuesday, with San Francisco 49ers’ star TE George Kittle breaking the news on the ban to NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo.
Since then, multiple NFL players have spoken out against the ban, including big names like Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ QB Baker Mayfield. “I think the reasoning is because it masks concussion symptoms, but if you get knocked out, which is the whole purpose of smelling salts to wake you up,
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