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...Each year in the United States, about 300,000 athletes experience sports-related traumatic brain injuries. In the NFL, approximately 100 players suffer concussions resulting from collisions averaging 98 times the force of gravity...
...facing a growing number of football veterans with deteriorating health, the NFL is beginning an extensive study of the connection between sports-related concussions and chronic brain dysfunction. Plans to address the often devastating side-effects of a professional football career are already in the works. Yet as the NFL devotes funds to researching and treating brain disorders after the fact, the question remains whether the league is willing to make sacrifices to take the safety of its players seriously from the fore. As attention to the relationship between athletics and brain injury is on the rise...
...After former Philadelphia Eagle Andre Waters, whose extreme brain damage has been attributed to repeated concussions, committed suicide this past November, the NFL promised to “begin studying retired players later this year.” Embarking on a study that may cost as much as $3 million over several years, co-chairman of the NFL’s Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) Committee, Dr. Ira Casson, said the study aimed to determine “whether or not a career in the NFL results in any kind of chronic brain injury...
...these resolutions arrive surprisingly late, as the league has already begun to take responsibility for the declining health of its players. When Mackey’s wife, Sylvia, wrote last May to then-NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue about the financial burden that can result from the rapid decline of retired players’ health, the league and the NFL Players Association responded by creating the “Number 88 Plan.” Named after John Mackey’s jersey number, the plan will pay up to $88,000 for each former player’s treatment...
...This plan is a noteworthy step on the part of the NFL to help remedy the consequences of an NFL career, but it appears that the league neither has been nor is being nearly as proactive with regard to encouraging and protecting the safety of players on the field...