Leonard Weaver, Philadelphia Eagle

[Eagaholic]

Speaking of former Eagles fullbacks with a brain disorder, I heard Kevin Turner a few days ago on Sirius. He has Lou Gehrigs disease, kinda sad listening to him. Has young kids and he knows he'll likely be dead within 3 years. He sounded a little labored in his speech and lost his train of thought once or twice, but it was a good interview and he sounds like a real likeable guy who is handling his situation very well. Best wishes to him.

[Diomedes]

That has got to be one of the worst ways to die..what a shame.

[Rome]

I wonder if getting his head smashed in for a living had anything to do with his condition.  Really, no sarcasm.

[QB Eagles]

I wonder if getting his head smashed in for a living had anything to do with his condition.  Really, no sarcasm.

The truth is that science doesn't really know the causes of ALS yet. Head injury may be among the factors, but that hasn't been proven at all. There is a syndrome known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) that is caused by repeated concussions, and in some patients it seems to trigger an ALS-like disease.

It might seem obvious to assume that any athlete with "ALS" probably has CTE (including Lou Gehrig himself), but we don't really know enough at this point. I wouldn't assume anything about Turner one way or the other.

The whole head injury thing is getting to be very contentious. The fact that very lawyered-up people with interests on both sides of the issue are pouring money into the research actually may not be too helpful to the science.

[Eagaholic]

To me it seems pretty evident there's a link. The incidence is like 8 times higher in football players, and among them it's higher in safeties, LBs and FBs than the other positions from what I've heard.

[MDS]

cya

[PhillyPhreak54]

That sucks...at least he got paid before he blew his knee up

[SD]

I can now tell my grandkids that I was at Leonard Weavers final game

[ice grillin you]

weavy no kneezy fo sheezy

[PhillyPhreak54]

Wow

Weaver said that the organization didn't call him and tell him - that he found out from a reporter.

That is some low class bullshtein there

[Drunkmasterflex]

Piss poor move on the Eagles part he didn't even find out he was released by the team a reporter told him. 

[ice grillin you]

par for the course....but whisper when you criticize them or else hawk might have a breakdown

[PhillyPhreak54]

par for the course....but whisper when you criticize them or else hawk might have a breakdown

This shtein is infuriating...how hard is it to pick up the phone and make a call to a guy and thank him for his time, wish him well and all of that? farging iceholes. Its not like they were too busy working on anything else to pick up the goddamn phone. farging jerkoffs

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

They fixed the glitch. Easier to let these things work themselves out.

[Drunkmasterflex]

I can't wait to see what kind of bull sthein they try to spin on this one.  The only thing they could possibly do to make it some what right is admit they farged up.