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NFL to ask its players to donate brains for study
Breitbart (AP) ^
| December 20, 2009
| Howard Fendrich
Posted on 12/20/2009 10:23:48 AM PST by Cheap_Hessian
The NFL is partnering with Boston University brain researchers who have been critical of the league's stance on concussions, The Associated Press learned Sunday.
The league now plans to encourage current and former NFL players to agree to donate their brains to the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, which has said it found links between repeated head trauma and brain damage in boxers, football players and, most recently, a former NHL player.
"It's huge that the NFL actively gets behind this research," said Robert Cantu, a doctor who is a co-director of the BU center and has spoken negatively about the league in the past. "It forwards the research. It allows players to realize the NFL is concerned about the possibility that they could have this problem, and that the NFL is doing everything it can to find out about the risks and the preventive strategies that can be implemented."
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Sports
KEYWORDS: athletes; brain; nfl
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To: Cheap_Hessian
Whoo boy - talk about a target rich environment!
To: Cheap_Hessian
LOL! That headline has to win an award for being one of the funniest I’ve ever seen! :-)
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posted on
12/20/2009 10:24:34 AM PST
by
pillut48
("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
To: Cheap_Hessian
The DNC has been asking it’s supporters to do the exact same thing, for decades.
To: Cheap_Hessian
Terry Bradshaw is leading by example.
(j/k, I think he’s hilarious)
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posted on
12/20/2009 10:26:49 AM PST
by
GnuHere
To: Cheap_Hessian
In related news, the United Way has begin a campaign to get the homeless as contributors.
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posted on
12/20/2009 10:30:18 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: Cheap_Hessian
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posted on
12/20/2009 10:32:35 AM PST
by
catfish1957
(Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
To: Cheap_Hessian
Hey, how come all these tiny jars say “Abby Normal?”
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posted on
12/20/2009 10:36:54 AM PST
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: Cheap_Hessian
Is there a deadline for donations?
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posted on
12/20/2009 10:39:52 AM PST
by
bgill
(The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
To: Cheap_Hessian
To: Cheap_Hessian
The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
--Joe Theisman
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posted on
12/20/2009 10:42:49 AM PST
by
umbagi
(Who is Jim Thompson?)
To: Pining_4_TX
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posted on
12/20/2009 10:42:54 AM PST
by
Cheap_Hessian
(I am the Grim FReeper.)
To: Cheap_Hessian
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posted on
12/20/2009 10:52:13 AM PST
by
dragnet2
To: MarineBrat
BU to ask its researchers to donate brains for study
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posted on
12/20/2009 11:05:42 AM PST
by
campaignPete R-CT
("pray without ceasing" - Paul of Tarsus)
To: Cheap_Hessian
NFL to ask its players to donate brains for studyNow or later?
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posted on
12/20/2009 11:13:46 AM PST
by
decimon
To: Cheap_Hessian
Now we know why the NFL didn’t want Rush Limbaugh to be associated with them...
...it was all in the name of science...
...they didn’t want to blow the curve!
To: Cheap_Hessian
Isn’t this like one of those blood-turnip thingies???
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posted on
12/20/2009 11:22:22 AM PST
by
djf
(Invest now! Buy paper! Earn interest! That's more paper!! (A little soy sauce and you CAN eat it!)
To: Cheap_Hessian
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posted on
12/20/2009 11:24:30 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Cheap_Hessian
before or after they sign those big $ contracts?
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posted on
12/20/2009 11:25:18 AM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Cheap_Hessian
They’re not gonna study ‘em, they’re gonna EAT ‘em. They’re ZOMBIES!
“Braaaaiiiiiins!”
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