Also video. Worth reading and viewing.
When are we going to steer our sons and grandsons to safer sports?
Neural plaques are ubiquitous with age. Certainly physical trauma may contribute in some cases, but in no way can be considered the sole cause in age related dementia and molecular neural pathologies which occur in old age.
There’s too much hype and politics involved with this issue.
It seems nothing is not politicized, distorted and used for a purpose these days.
For all of human history we have done things for fame, glory and riches that we have known were quite dangerous.
Football is one of those things.
If you’re fresh out of college, going to make the cut into the big leagues and make huge money, most will take the chance over long life.
Whose fault is it? Football’s? No. It’s ours. The NFL is today’s gladiators.
The Snake was a great quarterback, may he rest in peace.
Caveat emptor.
Occupational hazard. The good thing is from now on people will know more about the health risks of playing full contact sports and better able to decide whether or not they choose to assume those risks.
Stabler lived a full life
Fred Dryer....what position did he play.? He is healthy, just heard him on kfiam out of la.
When are people going to realize they assume responsibility when they knowingly play a very physical sport that knocks you hard and often injures you?
This is crap.
“Stabler died of colon cancer on July 8, 2015, at the age of 69. He had been diagnosed with the disease since February 2015.”
never trust the report of a Massachusetts wacko leftist neurologist paid to attack football
This Massachusetts clinic declaring all these players had CTE remind me of Jack Kevorkian deciding all his patients were worthy of assisted suicide. How about a highly-publicized story where these people declare a player’s brain to be CTE-free despite confusion and other symptoms? Then I might be inclined to believe their claims.
unless they check ALL men finding an abnormal reading on a football player is meaningless....
I really don't have much symapathy since we all make our choices and the football players choice is to be rich, adored, and pose for pics with naked women....
just like smokers...they get end stage COPD and complain about it?....
I would think football would be okay through high school, though not necessarily through college, and definitely not the pros. But jocks gotta do what jocks gotta do.
I read a comment from someone on another thread who said that if they returned to the leather helmets, this would be less of an issue. Sounds logical, but who knows?
I wonder how many concussions are too many before CTE is a concern.
Kenny Stabler is one of my football heroes. But even Kenny was probably surprised he lived so long considering the copious amount of cocaine and alcohol he ingested.
I’d be curious to see how many people have CTE that are in the non football population?