DEVELOPING: Tests show Aaron Hernandez had CTE

[eDave]

Aaron Hernandez, the former NFL star who took his life while serving a murder sentence in prison, had chronic traumatic encephalopathy -- commonly known as CTE -- attorney Jose Baez said Thursday.N

Source: CNN

True? Or a play for $$$?

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by eDave

Well sure. But take away the CTE, does either happen.

Let's say this comes to be true. What does the NFL do about CTE. They would appear to be creating killers. Self or otherwise.

even in the context of having CTE what he did as a major outlier. and the reality is the people that have CTE probably get it in Highschool and College.

[big nasty kcnut]

Also he did smoke the reefer I'll bet it accelerated the condition.

[penguinz]

This piece of trash only played in 38 games in the NFL. There is no way he had that advanced level of CTE just from the NFL. Had to come from College, High School, getting beat downs, etc...

Frivolous lawsuit. Not to mention that correlation is not causation. Not to mention he was a shit human being long before getting to the NFL.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by big nasty kcnut

Also he did smoke the reefer I'll bet it accelerated the condition.

I hope this was supposed to be a joke.

[vailpass]

He sucked a few too many dicks apparently.

[threebag]

You think he used his mouth or his butthole?

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by nceagle_11

From a scientific POV, there is a HUGE BS aspect to the CTE push against football. Where is the control group? Where are the studies on CTE from people who do crazy shit and didn't play in the NFL? You can't claim that football is causing CTE without a control group to prove that CTE doesn't exist naturally. Maybe, everyone has it.

there are literally hunreds of thousands of others who have been autopsied that never played football and don't have CTE. There is certainly something to it's occurence in football and likely to a certain extent in other high contact sports.

[ShiftyEyedWaterboy]

Have there been any studies done on younger athletes? College and high school football players that die young?

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by ShiftyEyedWaterboy

Have there been any studies done on younger athletes? College and high school football players that die young?

Michael Keck who IIRC was a choir boy who didn't do drugs and probably didn't binge drink.

[Chief Northman]

NFL guilty of murder. Damn you football!

****ing bullshit that they try to pin this on CTE. Hernandez was always criminal, entitled and a thug. Death couldn't resist him.

[Marcellus]

Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

there are literally hunreds of thousands of others who have been autopsied that never played football and don't have CTE. There is certainly something to it's occurence in football and likely to a certain extent in other high contact sports.

Hundreds of thousands of brains of non football players or non contact sports people have been autopsied to check for CTE exclusively?

Sorry dude I am not buying that.

[Skyy God]

Predictable CP freakout.

Guy was clearly a POS, but he's been posthumously diagnosed with a disease caused by the sport. His daughter will get a payout from the Pats. No way they want discovery into what they knew about him.

Poor Robert Kraft might have to cut loose a mistress due to the settling.

[DJ's left nut]

Boy this is a tremendous bit of perspective from Cris Carter:

https://sports.yahoo.com/watch-emoti...183956721.html

Worth the 8 minutes to watch the video.

[O.city]

Of course football causes brain issues. Continual blows to the head are pretty obvious to do that, right?

Yeah, the Carter thing was good. Saw it this morning. You can tell he's conflicted.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by O.city

Of course football causes brain issues. Continual blows to the head are pretty obvious to do that, right?

Yeah, the Carter thing was good. Saw it this morning. You can tell he's conflicted.

That's not the right word, though.

He's not conflicted...he's just kinda think's he's supposed to be. He has no hesitation whatsoever saying he'd do it all over again. He has no hesitation saying he'd encourage kids to play football.

That's not conflicted. Perhaps it's more, I dunno, chagrined?

He says what so many of us have said - these guys may not have known the risks, but even had they known them, 90% of them still make the same decision. Now that doesn't make it right to not tell them (especially for the remaining 10%) but it also puts more perspective here.

The NFL is a violent game where people have been paralyzed on the field. Football in general yields fatal injuries every year. There have always been significant risks at all levels. But the rewards and frankly the allure of the game itself are so great that it continues to draw people that want to be a part of it.