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Former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez had severe C.T.E.
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ElectricBlanketFire
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Unfortunately not surprising.
My son won't be playing football, that's for sure.
My son won't be playing football, that's for sure.
Lord Fagan
Junior Member
Pretty sure the quote is, "If one out of ten American mothers believes football is dangerous, that's the beginning of the end of professional football."
Xamtheking
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NFL has been trying to bury CTE research for quite some time
The book/movie Concussion goes into that a bit
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
All the drugs probably didn't help either.
Tender Joe
Member
No doubt, but would anyone disagree that the amount of trauma the doctors say his brain went through added fuel to that fire?
They're already seeing reduced enrollment rates in HS football and below.
Randolph Freelander
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I H8 Memes
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We have evidence of Hernandez shooting people during his recruiting trip during highschool. Stop making excuses for a long time phsychopath.
That's why football ads are targeting women a lot more nowadays.
This isn't about blaming him for being a guy with serious, serious issues, this is how football may have ended up amplifying those issues.
ArkhamFantasy
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Obviously its possible he was a bad person before CTE, but also remember by the time he finished high school he would have been playing football about 10 years, thousands of blows to his head. Its possible he had CTE even at that age.
That's really the issue there. No doubt Hernandez was a shithead with or without football - but would he have had the lack of foresight and impulsiveness to go from shithead to murderer? You can't really say for sure, but you have to raise an eyebrow.
I would hope not. We've got testimony from all sorts of former players talking about how they're uncontrollably angry all the time, etc. that the only way to stop the mental anguish is suicide.
Saint Gregory
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Considering that he was done playing at 23 and his lawyer is saying this was an advanced case why do you assume that he wasn't already suffering the effects at 18? There was a 19 year-old linebacker who committed suicide and was later diagnosed with it if I remember correctly.
mechashiva
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CTE doesn't give you a crew that helps you kill someone and try to cover it up.
entremet
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According to the researchers, you want to start measuring as soon as they start playing tackle football. Could be Pee-Wee. However, the bigger and worse hits tend to come in HS/College, which have less player protection rules.
uncredited male
Member
Well no shit. Wait till CTE can be tested on living people and watch how fast the NFL changes things.
3 years in the NFL. Last season was in 2012, when he turned 23.
And the New England Patriots drafted him, because they could get him for a steal in the later rounds. He threatened one of his teammates, but Bill has to win.
Meyer and Belichick made every allowance for him, because he was an All-Pro.
Let's stop pretending these clubs didn't enable him all the way through. He was used and pushed on through the system since he started playing football. It's how the system works. No care for mental or long-term health.
It's all about keeping the coach's job.
He had brain damage then.
It starts with little league.
That Bengals player that died after jumping on top of his wife's speeding car had CTE too if I remember. He was also in his 20's when he died.
Alligatorjandro
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I wouldnt be surprised if all football players have it.
Hell I bet most athletes have it
Hell I bet most athletes have it
Oh I guess the theory that everyone here so far has been advancing that everything was good and no one ever did anything bad before CTE is false.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
He probably started to play when he was in High School or before that so maybe 10 years or so.
Exactly. He always had problems. When he was 17 he punched someone in the head. Dude always had problems and chances are all the drugs he did didn't help. If he didn't play football chances are he would have gotten locked up a lot sooner.
Sweeney Tom
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I hope the family wins their lawsuit. Against the Patriots and against the league
Randolph Freelander
Member
Though head trauma likely started as soon as he playing the game. NFL was just the last step in the journey.
17 Seconds
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not surprising.
football is in trouble.
football is in trouble.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
I don't get this post. No one is excusing what he did because he had CTE.
The Jazz Cabbage Master
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football needs to change with all of the evidence we have about how harmful it is to the brain.
It's already happening. There are high schools that cannot field full teams and are having to merge with neighboring schools. Wait another 10years and this will become the norm.
17 Seconds
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i don't listen to lebatard, what is his stance?
Randolph Freelander
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In context of this, recall that a recent study showed 110 out of 111 donated brains of former football players showed evidence of CTE. (It should be noted that this was a self-selected study, not meant to indicate that nearly all football players have it.)
Hernandez is nowhere near an isolated incident.
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/25/539198429/study-cte-found-in-nearly-all-donated-nfl-player-brains
Hernandez is nowhere near an isolated incident.
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/25/539198429/study-cte-found-in-nearly-all-donated-nfl-player-brains
Great news.
The next step in all of this will be discovering it's worse than we think in some other sports as well. But that's not necessarily to say that the issue will be close to the same in other team sports than it is in American football.
entremet
Member
American Football has more subconcussive hits, which make up the bulk of what may cause CTE.
I'm curious what happens with Soccer, though. I haven't seen many retired soccer players have issues like our guys. Have you?
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