Professional Sports Age Requirement
Posted June 23, 2017
The NFL Eligibility Requirements
NFL rule requires a player to either be out of high school for three
years or have finished three college football seasons before joining the
league. (Lupica, M. 2004) The NFL is the only major professional sport
that prohibits the drafting of players who have not completed three college
seasons or who are not three years removed from high school graduation
(Gehring, 2004; Nieporent 2004). The NFL claims that this rule is in the
athlete’s best interest. The NFL argues that this rule protects player’s
physical safety. However, the NFL and the NCAA benefit by capitalizing
on amateur athletes.
This has been debated over and over again, the lower court ruling on this subject say's it's a violation of labor laws anti-trust laws, the supreme court said it is not clearly it is but until that can be won out through the legal system or the NFL comes into the 21st century on this subject, this is it.
