(05-14-2023, 09:14 AM)jonnyss Wrote: really well-written article in the washington post on cte and harvard former football players, focusing on chris nowinsky, who has tirelessly pushed to have cte taken seriously, and chris eitzmann, handsome former team captain, who died and was found to have brain damage.
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Truly can't enjoy football anymore, for this reason. Cousin once removed played for USC about a decade ago, and had numerous concussions in high school and college. As a barely 30-year-old, he's now exhibiting all the symptoms of early stage CTE - confusion, forgetfulness, anger management, inability to concentrate. Worked in tech for years but lost his job when performance issues started to set in. Finally went to the police saying he needed help and they said there's nothing we can do, so he threatened to beat a cop up (in the station) so that he would be arrested and could get access to treatment.
When you see what this does to former players' lives and the lives of their loved ones, it gets pretty hard to come up with any justification for supporting it without the major modifications necessary to significantly reduce these risks.
But I'm sure a chorus will follow with "what about isms" and then we'll forget about it all until the next sad story or depressing medical study...