Goal posts at the ends of football fields are padded as a safety measure for players who might run into them. how does thick padding around the goal post reduce injuries to players?

When looking at it from a physics standpoint, the thick padding decreases the amount of force that a player experiences. Force equals mass times acceleration where acceleration is distance over time. The thick padding increases the amount of time the player makes contact with the post which decreases force.

Football was the fourth deadliest sport with a fatality rate of .81 per 100,000 participants. cheerleading, which has been shown to be the most dangerous activity based on injury data, was not included in the study because it was not classified as a sport.this is my answer because it didn’t give me any sports