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Ken Stabler, the standout Raiders quarterback who died in July, had severe C.T.E.
NY Times ^ | 2-3-16 | John Branch

Posted on 02/03/2016 4:27:19 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic

Shortly before he died last July, the former N.F.L. quarterback Ken Stabler was rushed away by doctors, desperate to save him, in a Mississippi hospital. His longtime partner followed the scrum to the elevator, holding his hand. She told him that she loved him. Stabler said that he loved her, too.

"I turned my head to wipe the tears away," his partner, Kim Bush, said recently. "And when I looked back, he looked me dead in the eye and said, 'I'm tired.' "

They were the last words anyone in Stabler’s family heard him speak.

"I knew that was it," Bush said. "I knew that he had gone the distance. Because Kenny Stabler was never tired."

The day after Stabler died on July 8, a victim of colon cancer at age 69, his brain was removed during an autopsy and ferried to scientists in Massachusetts. It weighed 1,318 grams, or just under three pounds. Over several months, it was dissected for clues, as Stabler had wished, to help those left behind understand why his mind seemed to slip so precipitously in his final years.

On the neuropathologist's scale of 1 to 4, Stabler was diagnosed with high Stage 3 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., the degenerative brain disease believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head, according to researchers at Boston University.

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Stabler, well known by his nickname, the Snake ("He'd run 200 yards to score from 20 yards out," Stabler's junior high school coach told Sports Illustrated in 1977), is one of the highest-profile football players to have had C.T.E. The list, now well over 100, includes at least seven members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, including Junior Seau, Mike Webster and Frank Gifford.

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KEYWORDS: athletes; cte; football; houstonoilers; nfl; oaklandraiders; stabler; thesnake
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I’d be curious to see how many people have CTE that are in the non football population?


61 posted on 02/03/2016 8:56:09 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: afraidfortherepublic

People play sports because they like to. They gladly risk their bodies for the love of the sport and hopes of a career.

In the trades, people willingly subject their bodies to damages throughout their careers. They pay for it later and I do mean pay for it.

Life ain’t a bowl of peaches.

When you say “We”......when are We!.....You mean the government must make us safe from ourselves.

Frankly, I find that idea disgusting.


62 posted on 02/03/2016 9:03:57 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: ro_dreaming

I’m glad to hear it.


63 posted on 02/04/2016 5:20:23 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: dfwgator

Kenny was a legendary partier around here. Numerous DUI’s etc.

You’re right about Manziel.

Broadway Joe would have never made it to the Super Bowl nowadays.


64 posted on 02/04/2016 5:34:33 AM PST by logitech
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

Wow, someone pee in your cereal or something or are you just nasty by nature???


65 posted on 02/04/2016 7:04:35 AM PST by fatez (Ya, well, you know, that's just your opinion man...)
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To: fatez

Which nation do you suppose is stronger? A nation full of men weaned on football? Or a nation of men weaned on soccer? I think the answer is beyond obvious.


66 posted on 02/04/2016 8:36:43 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: Jolla

Campbell was a beast!

The rest of the play? Yep... a junkyard dog in a china shop. :)


67 posted on 02/04/2016 9:16:00 AM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: Talisker
That's ridiculous.

Maybe but girls soccer is #3 behind football and hockey in concussion per participant

68 posted on 02/04/2016 11:06:30 AM PST by Jolla
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