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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would love to read it but I don't have a NYT subscription.

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It covers multiple families who had sons that played football but ended up committing suicide in their early 20s or younger.  The one video clip of the boy is haunting.  He makes a video for his parents and describes demons in his head before he shoots himself in the chest.  In the video, he tells his parents to send his brain for science because he thinks he has cte.  Yes, they study his brain and find CTE, and he was only a teenager who hadn’t played more advanced football beyond high school level.  The other results from those that died showed up advanced CTE up to stage 2 (out of 4).  If you remember Aaron Hernandez (ex-pats player who committed murder and died by suicide) the doc who studied his brain said it was the worst she’d ever seen at such a young age (27) and he was graded with stage 3 cte.  These are kids in high school with CTE one notch below Hernandez.  [/quote]

But football isn't the only sport where that's a factor.
A little over a year ago, there was a Virginia HS LAX player that tried to take his own life, and his parents have questioned if the concussions were a factor.
https://www.fauquier.com/news/article_d6e18b20-71a4-11ed-870a-b706aa3f03b5.html[/quote]

No crap, it’s contact sports and sports that jar the brain in general.   Yes, you can get cte playing soccer, rugby, ice hockey, etc.  But football defenders are using crappy whataboutisms arguments. The levels of and prevalence of cte they’re finding in football players is many fold worse than for sports like soccer.  The whole point of football is to induce collisions.  This happens many thousands of times over the course of years as kids play the sport, because they’re getting hit all practice long and during games.  They’re literally developing dementia pugilistica, yet parents have no problems signing up their 6 year olds for it.[/quote]

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