Football leans on tradition, providing convenient cover for the NFL's lenient stance on smelling salts, ammonia crystals that players believe enhance performance when inhaled. Kyle Shanahan apparently ...

Fox's cameras focused in on Kyle Shanahan right as the San Francisco 49ers coach took a big whiff from smelling salts, a substance the NFL banned before the start of this season. As Fox sideline ...

The NFL instituted a smelling salts ban in August, which 49ers star tight end George Kittle criticized during an NFL Network interview during training camp when he joked: “I considered retirement. We ...

In August, the NFL decided that coaches and teams are no longer allowed to provide players with smelling salts. “This was a step that we felt that we needed to take as a league to make sure that our ...

The NFL has finally realized that it doesn’t make sense to provide smelling salts to players who may be using them to mask the symptoms of a concussion. But the NFL has not banned their use, because ...

Football leans on tradition, providing convenient cover for the NFL's lenient stance on smelling salts, ammonia crystals that players believe enhance performance when inhaled. Does the olfactory ...