October 10, 2013 by
Frontline aired its provocative documentary League of Denial on Tuesday evening. League of Denial offers insights into the NFL�s concussion crisis with, for me, painstaking detail. It took me three sittings to finish. The subject matter was too frustrating and too close to home to absorb in a single viewing. After Dad died, my family and I donated his brain to the Sports Legacy Institute (SLI) to help advance their research into concussions, brain injuries, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). If you�ve seen the documentary, there is a segment that discusses the difficulties Chris Nowinski, SLI�s co-founder and executive director, faces when he phones the families of recently diseased players and asks about the possibility of acquiring that player�s brain for medical examination. Our family was one that Chris called, and we are thankful he did. The doctors and families in the two-hour documentary are not strangers. They are part of an extended family, one connected by the physical and mental havoc wreaked on former players by CTE.
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