Around the NFL - 2011

[Eagaholic]

man, this CTE stuff does make them batshtein crazy

Posted by Michael David Smith on April 2, 2011, 12:01 PM EDT
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When former Bears safety Dave Duerson committed suicide and asked that his brain be studied, it attracted a great deal of attention to concerns that players who suffer from depression later in life are having their brains damaged on the football field. Less attention has been paid to Shane Dronett, a former defensive lineman who committed suicide in 2009, but a CNN report is shedding new light on how brain injuries in football affected Dronett's post-football life.

Sanjay Gupta sat down with Dronett's wife and daughter for a powerful account of the way Dronett's mental deterioration began.

"He woke up in the middle of the night and started screaming and told everyone to run out of the house," said Chris Dronett, Shane Dronett's wife. "He thought that someone was blowing up our house. It was very frightening."

Three years later, Dronett killed himself. Scientists at the Boston University School of Medicine's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy studied his brain tissue and found that he was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative disease found in people who have been subjected to multiple blows to the head.

[Diomedes]

CTE really might be the end of football as we know it.

Time to take the helmets back off?

[ice grillin you]

GO owners

[Diomedes]

The outsize risks borne by the owners obviously demands a greater piece of the profits pie than they've been getting heretofore?

[Eagaholic]

CTE really might be the end of football as we know it.

Time to take the helmets back off?

I don't think that would help. I understand the logic, but they gave up wearing cups 20 years ago.

[Diomedes]

do rugby players get CTE as much as american football players?

[General_Failure]

I doubt it. They generally don't get up to a full sprint before colliding with each other.

[Eagaholic]

do rugby players get CTE as much as american football players?

I don't know if anyone knows. I don't think rugby players tend to be as big or fast as NFLers. I never watched rugby so I went to youtube and watched this clip. Other than head to head contact and tackling at the legs, it looks a lot like american football


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz0_An6RH5k


It may not even be the big hits and concussions that are the only cause of CTE. Chris Henry's brain had CTE signs even though he was never known to have a concussion in college or the NFL. Much more we don't know than we do at his point.

[Diomedes]

So, what you're saying is that CTE has been proven to result from, and only from, concussions sustained in an NFL™ football game?

[Sgt PSN]

Nice use of the superscript.  A highly overlooked feature 'round these parts.

[Eagaholic]

So, what you're saying is that CTE has been proven to result from, and only from, concussions sustained in an NFL™ football game?

No, where did you get that from? I don't think there is any proof of any cause yet and the Chris Henry case seems to cast doubt that concussions are necessarily involved. It now seems there may be a number of variants or closely related, but different conditions. Some experts think Lou Gehrig didn't die of Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS).

[ice grillin you]

[Munson]

 


Brandon Lloyd had an awesome year for my fantasy team. I wonder if he keeps it up this time.

[Sgt PSN]

I like how she put her pom poms behind her back as she turned and ran away.  Because ya know, that's the only way cheerleaders are aloud to move. 

[MDS]

hes black and shes white

i get it