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Boston Sports Talk Ignores the Elephant in the Room

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Tilden

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Wonder if the Patriot's Flag Ship radio Station 98.5 was given orders yesterday not to talk about The Boston Sunday Globe blockbuster article " The Patriot Faces of CTE" by the outstanding Boston Globe journalist and sports reporter, Bob Hohler. The front page story bares the faces of those who brains were destroyed by CTE and their association with the Patriots. The silence is deafening !
 
Tilden said:
Wonder if the Patriot's Flag Ship radio Station 98.5 was given orders yesterday not to talk about The Boston Sunday Globe blockbuster article " The Patriot Faces of CTE" by the outstanding Boston Globe journalist and sports reporter, Bob Hohler. The front page story bares the faces of those who brains were destroyed by CTE and their association with the Patriots. The silence is deafening !
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Any discussion of the story on WEEI?
 
Tilden said:
Wonder if the Patriot's Flag Ship radio Station 98.5 was given orders yesterday not to talk about The Boston Sunday Globe blockbuster article " The Patriot Faces of CTE" The front page story bares the faces of those who brains were destroyed by CTE and their association with the Patriots.
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Where's the link?

What's the CTE?
 
Wiki:"Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease found in people who have had multiple head injuries. It is most commonly found in those who have participated in contact sports on a regular basis. Its presence in domestic violence is also being investigated. It can affect high school athletes after only a few years of participation"

https://www.bostonglobe.com/todayspaper/2017/10/29
 
Should have mentioned that. I checked in several time on WEEI and they were not discussing it either but I didn't listen that long.
 
Tilden said:
Should have mentioned that. I checked in several time on WEEI and they were not discussing it either but I didn't listen that long.
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Yes boys and girls, CTE is the fault of the NFL.

Not Pop Warner, not JV or Varsity football, not games played between friends or intramural ball, not college ball.... it is all the fault of the NFL, you know the NFL with deep pockets.

You can't prove CTE without removing the brain, but that isn't stopping everyone including the usual list of ambulance chasing layers who are doing targeted advertising at current or former NFL players, Practice squad players and NFL Europe players to sign up to sue the league in order to get part of the monies the NFL set aside.. much like the asbestos trust fund.

It makes for crummy radio, especially with 3 of the local sports teams playing.....

Do you want to talk about Tom Brady or CTE?
 
A buddy of mine played high school football for 2 years 2010 and 2011. He suffered 2 concussions. He's 23 and is normally very intelligent. Occasionally he will forget things, but once in a while he has a huge problem and has an episode where he can't remember anything. Usually he knows when it's coming because it will begin with a headache. He's been lucky that it hasn't happened while he's driving. He usually drinks some water and sits down for about 15 or 20 minutes and then feels better. He told me he's more likely to have one of these episodes when he doesn't get enough sleep or if he's been drinking alcohol or if he's dehydrated.

I'm sure you all probably think I'm full of crap, but I swear it's true.
 
CTE is real, just as the phenomenon of the "punch-drunk" boxer is real. Repeated concussions aren't good for you and the effects are cumulative. CTE is even being seen in former soccer players, which is a real threat to the very nature of the sport. While contact to the head can at least partially be legislated out of football, taking the head out of play in soccer would make scoring even more difficult in a sport in which it already is a supreme challenge. But as a spectator, I still watch football and, to a lesser extent, soccer. I do feel sorry for those Pats old-timers who had no idea what they were "signing up for" when they chose to play football.
 
Read recently that soon doctors will be able to detect CTE while the patient is still alive whether it is connected to the NFL or anything else. Yup, discussing how playing for the NFL could destroy your brain is a downer. There's a bucket of sand on the side lines to bury your head....
 
I wouldn't miss football or soccer if they both went away due to CTE.
 
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