Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots tight end who committed suicide in April while serving a life sentence for murder, was found to have a severe form of C.T.E., the degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head trauma that has been found in more than 100 former N.F.L. players.
A lawyer for Hernandez, Jose Baez, in announcing the result at a news conference Thursday, said researchers determined it was “the most severe case they had ever seen in someone of Aaron’s age,†which was 27.
aaaaaahhh. the first thing about this issue that makes sense. I never thought of CTE but I shudda. the whole thing now makes sense.
look here! I love NFL football but it is a brutal game they should stop playing. I will soon boycott the game..no more fantasy and pro line point spread. some 5 college students dead this year alone from playing the bloody game.
I wud like to see them find a way to play the game eliminating the extreme murderous physicality. but as it stands they might as well play to the death for all the destruction it is causing to players at all levels of the game
mek dem play touch football professionally. current football is uncivilized
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So....it's now ok to plan a murder as long as you played football. It's really hard to take responsibility for your actions anymore.
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a few years back there was this beloved retired Hispanic football great, who in his forties was in a constant state of erratic behavior, doing weird things, in contact with the police, tormented. then he blew himself away.
how do you explain that David ::confused::
he had money, fame, good looks, and apparent good health. but his brains were rotting away and he became a demon until he could stand it no more.
there was a Green Bay Packer great by the name of White...I cant quite put my hands on his first name at the moment. he wont a super bowl with Brett Farves Green Bay team. he just up and died at 44.
if you look around the NFL David you will see tons of this. and if you are looking and have an idea how this society works you soon realize that the NFL/media are hiding a serious NFL football reality...the murderous physical and emotional toll the game exacts on the players
this is not the first time I have talked like this about NFL football here. I have said before the game should be banned in my opinion..that I told my 6 foot 2 son 'no football at high school and university' as he was being encouraged.. or he is on his own.
so based on what I have seen myself the actions, the behavior of Hernandez is clear now that CTE has been proved.
Hernandez is dead and no one involved, especially the doctors have anything to gain by saying what they found. in fact the NFL wud prolly have given them millions to hide what they found.
and now that they have come down on the side of truth they might even have career problems, from those who stand to lose if football comes under added pressure to change..or there is a rise in public pressure to rigorously reorganize the game to minimize player injury
Hernandez was a young man of high ability, tall, good looks, rich..and he was involved in inexplicable behavior that such people always want to stay far from, because they have whole lives to live now at high material level. they have lots of money. most guys like that stay away from trouble, not go look for it
nah man. CTE makes it all clear to me. I have been following this long enough to know and recognize immediately the plausibility of CTE as the source of Hernandez's dysfunction
Quote:As the NFL nears an end to its long-running legal battle over concussions, new data from the nation’s largest brain bank focused on traumatic brain injury has found evidence of a degenerative brain disease in 76 of the 79 former players it’s examined.
The findings represent a more than twofold increase in the number of cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, that have been reported by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ brain repository in Bedford, Mass.
Researchers there have now examined the brain tissue of 128 football players who, before their deaths, played the game professionally, semi-professionally, in college or in high school. Of that sample, 101 players, or just under 80 percent, tested positive for CTE.
To be sure, players represented in the data represent a skewed population. CTE can only be definitively identified posthumously, and many of the players who have donated their brains for research suspected that they may have had the disease while still alive. For example, former Chicago Bears star Dave Duerson committed suicide in 2011 by shooting himself in the chest, reportedly to preserve his brain for examination.
Nonetheless, Dr. Ann McKee, the director of the brain bank, believes the findings suggest a clear link between football and traumatic brain injury.
“Obviously this high percentage of living individuals is not suffering from CTE,†said McKee, a neuropathologist who directs the brain bank as part of a collaboration between the VA and Boston University’s CTE Center. But “playing football, and the higher the level you play football and the longer you play football, the higher your risk.â€
look at this man..my favorite running back of all time. he is just 63 years old and look at him..in his retirement sick and deteriorating since he was in his late forties. the picture was taken when he was 59.
Quote:He will turn 60 next April, and is already 25 years removed from his professional playing days, when he dazzled Cowboys fans with his rushing skills and moves, a career that propelled him into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
But Tony Dorsett is a self-professed “changed man†these days, and none of the change is good, as he tells it. He says he suffers from memory loss, depression and anger issues, symptoms he attributes to playing in a violent sport for 11 years. One day he will forget where the grocery store is, while another day he will unexpectedly explode at his 10-year-old daughter.
“Let me tell you something dude, I can’t remember the names of people. Every time I’ve got to go somewhere, almost every other day, I’ve got to ask my wife, ‘How do I get there?’ That is embarrassing,†says Dorsett. “I’m short-tempered and I don’t like that. I break down, because I’m like, ‘Man, what’s happening to me? Why did I just snap at my daughter?’â€
The NFL and over 4,500 former football players may have reached a proposed settlement in the class-action concussion lawsuit Thursday — in which the plaintiffs alleged that the league for years covered up what it knew about the dangers of concussions suffered while playing professional football — but Dorsett is one of the plaintiffs in the suit who isn’t climbing atop a soap box to proclaim victory just yet. He and other former players think there are huge holes in the settlement terms, most glaringly, the lack of a clause that would ensure guaranteed lifetime medical benefits.
[size=18pt]kILL THE gAME dAVID! ELIMINATE IT. IT IS NOT WORTH THE HUMAN PRICE. i AM DONE WITH IT MYSELF..MY LAST YEAR IF i CANT KILL MY INTEREST SOONER[/size]
