Tuesday, July 17, 2018

CTE and the aggression of Football players off the field. PART1

                                                           I LOVE THIS GAME.....

      My favorite game as a big fan of sports is professional football. The teamwork is impeccable, I love the camaraderie, the hard hits and excitement of the game. The truth is that players are dying to play this game. Unfortunately due  to chronic traumatic encephalopathy some players have been left as broken men. There are multiple players who have committed suicide under the guise of suffering from brain trauma.
Some have become violent and a modicum of NFL players have been incarcerated.
The effects of the violent collisions has taken a toll on men during and especially after they are done playing the game of football.
     
       According to Boston University Dr. Ann Mckee examined the brains of 202 deceased football players. What she found was that 110 of 111 NFL players had CTE. (July 25th 2017}
CTE has also effected the brains of players still alive, here is a list of some. their average age is 51:
Lance Briggs, Joe Delamilleure, Mark Duper, Brett Farve, Charlie Garner, Tony Dorsett, Bernie Kosar, Jim McMahon, Jamal Lewis and Leonard Marshall.
Commissioner Godell and The NFL rules committee have done a nice job of adjusting the rules as it relates to helmet to helmet contact.
This is a collision sport the likes of which you can make but for so safe. Like coal mining the honest truth is that they'll get "black lung" and die by 50 something.
There needs to be steps taken off the field in order for these players to make those adjustments off the field as well. A modicum of players have had off field issues from Domestic Violence, to drugs, gun charges, etc... I would assert that the brain trauma has to be part of some of these scenarios as they have a 4.7% arrest rate. 

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