The NFL Wants Players’ BRAINS!

By | December 22, 2009 | Football | 4 Comments

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The NFL wants players’ BRAINS!

It sounds like a crappy Woody Harrelson movie but really  – The NFL and the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy want former and current football players to agree to donate their brains to research.

I mean, after they are dead.

Presumably.

The article didn’t really specify, but I am assuming they will wait patiently.

The researchers at Boston University have found links between repeated head trauma and brain damage in football and hockey players as well as boxers.

I don’t mean to be a jerk, but DUH.

I’m glad they care about brain trauma, but didn’t we already know this?

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4 Replies to The NFL Wants Players’ BRAINS!

  1. Gidge says:
    December 22, 2009 at 9:28 am

    I think that the loser of the superbowl should all have to donate their brains.

    On the spot.

    (unless it’s the Colts).

  2. GoonSquadSarah says:
    December 22, 2009 at 9:31 am

    That would make it a much more exciting game.

    (and I say the Chargers are going from the NFC)

    *ducks*

  3. De in D.C. says:
    December 22, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    Isn’t that why players get paid millions of dollars? To compensate for the fact their lives and bodies are going to be fucked by the time they retire?

  4. Gidge says:
    December 22, 2009 at 4:28 pm

    Sarah, them’s fight’en words.

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