Why did the NFL ban smelling salts in 2025? 🧂 George Kittle and other players aren’t happy. Here’s what you need to know about the ban, the risks, and why it could impact game-day routines across the league.
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Why do athletes sniff smelling salts? Typically, it’s used to treat fainting victims because of its strong smell. But athletes have used it for many years to provide a jolt of energy or alertness on game day. However, now it’s banned. And a frequent user of smelling salts, George KD, isn’t happy about it. Our team got a memo today that smelling salts and ammonia packets were made illegal in the NFL. Wow. And I’ve been distraught all day. But why is it being banned? Well, the NFL says the products are not proven to be safe and can also mass signs of a concussion. And so, no ammonia, inhalent, and smelling salts can be used at all during the 2025 NFL season. Some players will now have to find an alternative to getting that much neededed boost.
38 Comments
Easy just do some cocaine
We just reporting fake news? nfl just not providing it. Players gotta buy it themselves. Boo hoo
NotFunLeague
The no fun league
Cocaine “did someone call?” 😂
NFL players seem to have better vocabulary than other athletes
That stuff is no joke 😂
I was at a conference and this guy who worked for a smelling salts company was walking around.
My co-worker hits it first, and the guy is like "don't get too close to it"
He got too close to it 😂
My scary ahh was flinching until it cleared one nostril out IMMEDIATELY.
Then I thought I had it under control and got too close 😂
It's so bad
NFL will ban anything EXCEPT shitty refs….
Football has been going downhill for the past 15 years
Prater's FG % gonna tank 😂
Unusual nfl dub, we dont want dudes hiding their concussions, nobody should be hiding concussions. Unfortunately for the people who use them to be alert, most of the guys are using them after big hits to be alert when they have a minor concussion.
it’s banned for the nfl to provide them for the players. not banned for the players to provide for themselves. i’m pretty sure.
The NFLPA clarified the league’s new rule on smelling salts in a memo to players on Wednesday night, according to ESPN’s Kalyn Kahler. While teams are now prohibited from providing or supplying them in any form, the new policy does not stop players from actually using the substances.
Players can have and bring their own supply. Just nfl or teams won’t be passing them out anymore
Now they'll do nicotine pouches or coke.
Just let em get cte so they can stop complaining
🤦🏾♂️
But the owners wanted 20 games before settling at 18 games a season… they don't care that much about players health
Hey, its better than what LT was using to get his energy ❄️
Why don't they just use cocaine, it looks like the same effect on their faces
College baker is back
Oh wow, the NFL cares about concussions now?!
It's not banned.
Why is this so wrong? It's not banned
Wrong, teams are forbidden to supply it, players have to acquire their own
But lets still continue playing on artificial turf
I have literally never caught anyone sniffing smelling salts while watching football in over 20 years.
lol pretty sure just watched Jason Myers’s use some before game winning kick against the cardinals 😂 #cap 🧢
The ban is only on the teams providing them. They can bring and use all they want. There was a bit of confusion on this for about a week though.
They still use it? Aaron rodgers just used some and got a 80 yard td 😅
It's not banned or illegal. Teams just can't supply them anymore. Players can bring their own, tho.
I just watched Rodgers rip one on the field, toss it aside like a finished cig, and throw a 70 yard bomb at 41. The players said fuck that rule 😂😂
Ban the NFL while you're at it. Idc
It’s not banned. The team can’t supply smelling salts anymore, but players can bring their own.
BYOB
Aron rogers uses them tho
Rodger’s been using them all season wtf lol
Bengay sponsorships incoming