Seriously though, this is such a bullshit cop out they're trying to get. Sometimes jobs come with risks and these guys are paid a lot more then they deserve to be paid for playing football. You know the risks associated with it before you ever step onto the field. The NFL should make these guys sign waivers before they can suit up and if they don't, then don't let them play a down.
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I don't think that's a problem. The problem will be when this starts pushing kids away from football and towards other sports. Or you start seeing players retire early more often. It's not like there are 32 elite guys at most of these positions anyway.

They've already reduced practice times down to the point where it's pretty obviously effecting the quality of play on the field. I posted an article last week about how the CFL is banning practice with pads during the season. The NFL might not be far behind. There will probably be more changes in the future.
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Yep, it was his lawyer who had the tests done. Looking for some stupid loophole to eek some cash out of.
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From a scientific POV, there is a HUGE BS aspect to the CTE push against football. Where is the control group? Where are the studies on CTE from people who do crazy shit and didn't play in the NFL? You can't claim that football is causing CTE without a control group to prove that CTE doesn't exist naturally. Maybe, everyone has it.
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What I want to know is the relationship between subconcussive hits and chemical substances: be they alcohol, illicit drugs or prescribed medicines.
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I completely agree with that, but until you have a baseline to work from, all other research is pointless.
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He should probably look somewhere where he played more than 38 games.
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As far as I can tell Hernandez was the "wrong crowd".
The dude was a sociopath.
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I'd have to dig it up, I'm sure you could Google this... but Mayo Clinic researchers did this. To be fair, they said don't use their study to make any definitive statements, more research needs to be done.

But... they did a study of a number of brains. A third of the people who participated in contact sports had CTE. The control group had zero cases of CTE.
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http://www.startribune.com/mayo-rese...ion/360065411/

Here. 21 of the 66 brains they studied from people who played contact sports had CTE. They had a control group of 198 brains, and none of them showed signs of CTE.
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How much self-selection bias was in play with those 66 brains vs the 198 that didn't though.
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If his lawyer wins millions, the money should go to his victims families not his family.
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Thanks, I was just starting to wonder if damn near everyone had CTE..

Yeah, he was a thug at Florida too.
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From Wikipedia:

Second-stage symptoms include memory loss, social instability, impulsive behavior, and poor judgment...


If you start with someone who has issues it's going to make it worse.
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The proverbial eggshell plaintiff.
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