FOOTBALL LEAGUE STUDY ABOUT BRAIN INJURY IN FOOTBALL PLAYERS COULD BE A GAME CHANGER

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What Does Ditka Think?

I've written about this before. Here's yet another report about football and possible brain damage. "A study commissioned by the National Football League reports that Alzheimer’s disease or similar memory-related diseases appear to have been diagnosed in the league’s former players vastly more often than in the national population — including a rate of 19 times the normal rate for men ages 30 through 49".



"A detailed summary of the N.F.L. study, which was conducted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, was distributed to league officials this month..“This is a game-changer — the whole debate, the ball’s now in the N.F.L.’s court,” said Dr. Julian Bailes, the chairman of the department of neurosurgery at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, and a former team physician for the Pittsburgh Steelers whose research found similar links four years ago".











"Ditka, long a passionate advocate for the welfare of former NFL players suffering from injuries sustained on the field decades ago, recently read the news of a study commissioned by the NFL".

NFL dementia study worries Ditka























Vince Lombardi told the Green Bay Packers "Dancing is a contact sport, Football is a hitting sport"... In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to outlaw football after 19 college football players were killed or paralyzed from brain or spinal cord injuries. (Statistic from Maroon et al., Neurosurgery, 47:659-672, 2000.)"

Dementia Risk Seen in Players in N.F.L.

VINCE LOMBARDI Was Right FOOTBALL is a Hitting Sport