All posts tagged 'concussions and the NFL'

Ex-N.Y. Jet Jim Hudson Dies Of Parkinson’s Dementia

Posted on June 29th, 2013 · Posted in Brain Injury

Jim Hudson made football history when he intercepted a pass that turned into a key play in the 1969 Super Bowl, where the New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts. Hudson died Tuesday in Texas at age 70, suffering from a disease that he believed was caused by the head..
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Lem Barney Blames Head Injuries For Deacon Jones’ Demise

Posted on June 6th, 2013 · Posted in Brain Injury

Pro Football Hall of Famer Lem Barney has gone public with what I was thinking when I heard that NFL legend Deacon Jones had died: That head injuries played a part in his demise. In an interview with USA Today, Barney blamed the concussions that Jones endured during his career..
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Ex-NFL Player Kyle Turley Talks Concussions, Suicide

Posted on May 5th, 2013 · Posted in Brain Injury

I’ve read a lot of stories about the mental deterioration and psychological anguish that ex-NFL players suffer from the brain injuries they sustained during their careers. And one of the best ones I’ve seen is a recent story about former tackle Kyle Turley by The San Diego Union-Tribune. In the..
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A Tale Of Two Injured Athletes: Strasburg And Griffin

Posted on January 11th, 2013 · Posted in Brain Injury

Sometimes it just seems that the ridiculous win-at-all-costs, player-health-be-damned sports mentality that permeates the National Football League will never end. It’s a part of the jockdom of the gridiron. Thomas Boswell, a sports writer with The Washington Post, this week did a column on two different approaches to sports-team management..
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Ex-NFL Linebacker Junior Seau Had Chronic Brain Damage, CTE

Posted on January 10th, 2013 · Posted in Brain Injury

Seau with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy I’d like to say that this news is a surprise, but of course it isn’t. Brain specialists have determined that former NFL linebacker Junior Seau, who committed suicide in May, had the degenerative brain disease that’s been discovered in literally dozens of deceased players —..
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Ex-NFL Player And Actor Alex Karras Has New Role: Brain Injury Victim

Posted on April 14th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

After getting out of pro football, Alex Karras enjoyed a pretty good run as an actor. He played the character Mongo in Mel Brook’s hilarious spoof of Westerns, “Blazing Saddles.” And Karras played a dad in a 1980s sitcom, “Webster.” In a column Saturday, Associated Press writer Tim Dahlberg wrote..
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Will The NFL, And Football, Survive Pending Concussion Lawsuits?

Posted on January 3rd, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

We recently wrote about a number of  concussion lawsuits that were filed in the past two months or so by ex-players against the National Football League. Well, last Friday The New York Times did a big Page One round-up story on all the litigation of this kind pending against the NFL. Apparently,..
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