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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The NFL’s smelling salts stance does not pass the smell test. The NFL banned teams from providing smelling salts and ammonia packets, citing a warning from a ...

NFL games will be “B.Y.O.S.S.” in 2025. On Tuesday, the league sent a memo to its 32 clubs informing them they would no longer be allowed to administer players ammonia in any form during the 2025 ...

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 ...

NFL games will be “B.Y.O.S.S.” in 2025. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. On Tuesday, the league sent a memo to its 32 clubs ...