Posted on 11/16/2017 4:46:53 AM PST by TigerClaws
Researchers in Chicago report that they have detected evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, more commonly known as CTE, in a living patient for the first time.
Currently, CTE, a degenerative brain disease found in those with a history of repetitive brain trauma, can only be formally diagnosed after an autopsy. But a new study indicates researchers may be one step closer to being able to diagnose the disease while a patient is still alive by detecting deposits of tau proteins.
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No name = Fake news
Sorry, ghetto rats. Your Liberal-Leftist plantation masters are going to jerk your big paydays away from you.
No room for the NFL in a feminized, Socialist America.
It would be interesting to see how they try to go out about pursuing a case like that. They don’t name the former player, so it’s uncertain how long he actually played in the NFL. In the meantime, he probably played football for 10-15 years at other levels before he ever signed his first NFL contract. How do you assign liability in a case like that?
59 to 61 is pretty early onset for dementia. Wonder how they differentiate between CTE and various forms of dementia, especially in the living?
If I am an enterprising prosecutor in a non-NFL jurisdiction and this player lived in my jurisdiction I might be tempted to start a RICO investigation. Just imagine the howling from the pro-Kap people if the NFL were found guilty and PUT OUT OF BUSINESS!
It would make a great movie . . . maybe have Lizzie Warren play the Brockovich role as she struggles between the world of Pajama Boy Feminism and Gang Banger NFL tough guys, both of whom want to vote for Bernie! As she gets further into the case and sees Jacksonville owner Shahid Khan has led the coverup of the medical studies and it freaks her out to find her three favorite interest groups have conspired over the years to protect their cash flow.
In the end Warren reenacts the final scenes in Quadrophenia, driving her electric-powered moped over the cliffs of the Grand Canyon, while holding onto Susan Sarandon’s urn. The scene fades out to the music of the Star Spangled Banner as we shift to the site of the last NFL game where as the clock is running out in front of 50 people in the stands both teams get together for a final kneeling . . . holding up a sign that says
“Thanks a LOT Cap . . . a**hole . . . “
more good news for NFL
I didn’t read that he had any dementia.
If the NFL dies. It dies.
The NFL already agreed to set aside $1 Billion for CTE and or other neurological problems in April 2016 for 20,000 past, current and future players.
#4 Alberta’s Child wrote ~
>>They don’t name the former player, so it’s uncertain how long he actually played in the NFL.<<
The NY Daily News had a story last week about Tony Dorsett (Touchdown Tony) suffering from CTE...
All jocks have degenerative brain disease as a normal condition
They’re jocks!!!
That’s my question: how do they differentiate CTE from dementia, or rather from other forms of dementia?
Logic is not the primary criteria when assigning legal liability in our system.
If it were, we would not have the Deep Pockets laws in many states. Settlements are based on the ability to pay rather than actual causal liability.
There was a case many years ago in Florida where a man at a phone booth was severely injured by a drunk driver who ran off the road and hit him. The vast majority of the settlement he received was assigned to the owner of the phone booth, GTE, because they had the most money.
If I am doing the math correctly, that is only $50k per person. Betting the lawsuits will greatly exceed that number.
Does CTE cause the damage, exacerbate existing damage, is CTE really a syndrome/illness?
Just seems to me, and I’ve had 2 concussions and agree that getting your bell rung is never a good thing, that no one will benefit from bad science.
Well, no one will benefit except for the folks making money off it. Sigh.
You sue everybody who has deep pockets, the teams, the NFL, the advertisers, the taxpayer who paid for the stadium...
Yes, one less pathway out of the ghetto, according to your stated game plan. So that leaves, the NBA, MLB (but you’ll have to fight the Latinos for dominance in that sport-good luck with that), rapper, drug dealer, pimp although the last two won’t really take you that far away from it. Or...you might try another venue that always seems to elude your imagination. Becoming productive, hard working members of society in an occupation that requires training and job skills, or higher education, or at least a basic education.
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