“CTE Found In 99% Of Studied Brains From Deceased NFL Players”

A football game — A Sunday visitor to the United States from an alien planet might be pardoned for deducing, at certain times of the year, that football is the central ritual of America’s national religion.
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Professional football has been catching a huge amount of flak in recent years, and this story doesn’t help:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/health/cte-nfl-players-brains-study/index.html

I’m not a particularly passionate football fan. If a game is on television, I’ll watch it and even get into it. As much as the next guy. I vastly prefer it to game shows and reality TV, but then I don’t watch them, either.

However, I didn’t play high school football, and I don’t go out of my way to watch college or pro games on television. (I’ve never attended an NFL game in person, in fact, though I’ve attended more Major League Baseball games than I can count, and a few NBA games in various cities.)

But, before you become too exercised over this latest story about pro football and brain injuries, you might also want to read a piece by Alex Berezow:

“Be Skeptical: Will 99% Of NFL Players Really Develop CTE?”

“CTE found in 99% of studied brains from deceased NFL players”