They're hoping to prove he suffered from CTE as a result of his football days, more than likely trying to blame that for his homicidal behavior.
He was a thug long before he was in football....so I don’t buy it. The family is after something ....
Hernandez was a thug and gang-banger from his early teen years. But school officials and local authorities looked the other way, because of his talents on the gridiron. When Florida recruited him, Urban Meyer was warned, but Hernandez’s talents were too impressive to ignore. And lastly, the Patriots were well aware of his background, but they decided to take a shot, and for a while it paid off.
But in the end, Hernandez decided he was bullet-proof (because of his NFL status) and elected to go full-gangsta. He took three lives (sorry, I disagree with the results of his most recent try) and destroyed countless more. Then, he elects to take his life on the day his old team was going to the White House.
I applaud Tebow for trying to help his former teammate. But in the end, Hernandez chose the wrong path and refused to leave it. And he chose a coward’s death. It wasn’t football that “ruined” Aaron Hernandez; it was a lifetime of bad choices that were, for many years, concealed by his football talents. Not sure they can find those traits in a study of his brain.