My question is at what point did this all start happening?  When he was a baby?  A kid?  Pop Warner football?  Youth football?  There has to be more baseline testing done on people of all ages to know exactly where this is happening.  "Normal" people do heinous acts every day, and don't use CTE as an excuse for it.

I understand there are some players that had serious mental and psychological issues from CTE (Junior Seau and Mike Webster), but the guys that are playing now know the risks.  I know when I was playing we thought we were all set with the helmet.  The guys (and parents of kids) playing now know they can never be completely safe.

He had issues in high school and college so this was not an NFL issue, yet the girlfriend is suing the NFL like it was their fault. 



https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/aa...1e8ef62843

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Yeah... CTE probably can cause a lot of mental anguish...pain... all sorts of terrible issues. I hope they can figure out a way to look into it before death...
Also... Children younger than 13-14 probably should just play flag football... teach them the basics of teamwork and sportsmanship... routes and throwing and running... contact isn't needed until HS ball, imo.

This would surely put tackling back much in the way soft training camps have... but safety should be priority...


Back on the topic of Hernandez....
dude was a punk and a thug day 1 from his UF days... I imagine it goes back to High School... and probably before that...
I don't think the CTE is why he decided to kill people...or himself

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Still so little known about CTE because the vast majority of people who die aren't autopsies.

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

There is an assumption that CTE comes from trauma like football behind this as well (its in the name). However drug addicts and the like also get encephalopathy etc. There is a definite need for more research and more autopsies. Encephalopathy = injury to the brain, so almost anything can cause.

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Peyton must store oxygen in that forehead of his. No way I'd still be alive after all that choking.

 

It’s really not saying very much with all those qualifiers. “His age” “We’ve studied” not a lot of people meet that criteria. Really a sensationalist headline. CTE is real and bad, but it sounds like they’re trying to garner sympathy for a truly terrible person who got what he deserved in the end.

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Given the revelation that he had a close boyfriend in prison, I'd imagine the CTE probably started with him banging his head against the headboard as [insert names here] were taking him up the [BLEEP]

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Given the revelation that he had a close boyfriend in prison, I'd imagine the CTE probably started with him banging his head against the headboard as [insert names here] were taking him up the [BLEEP]

That’s uhhh... pretty distasteful

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