Wow...unexpected.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive degenerative disease found in individuals who have been subjected to multiple concussions and other forms of head injury. A variant of the condition, dementia pugilistica (DP), is primarily associated with boxing. CTE has been most commonly found in professional athletes participating in American football, ice hockey, professional wrestling and other contact sports, who have experienced head trauma, resulting in characteristic degeneration of brain tissue and the accumulation of tau protein. Individuals with CTE may show symptoms of dementia such as memory loss, aggression, confusion and depression which may appear within months of the trauma or many decades later. CTE is only diagnosed post-mortem.
Repeated concussions and injuries less serious than concussions ("sub-concussions") incurred during the play of contact sports over a long period can result in CTE. The brain changes in CTE and DP are similar and are delayed effects of repeated concussions and sub-concussions of the brain.
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The individual may also progress through three stages of the disease. The first stage is characterized by its disturbances and psychotic symptoms. In the second stage of the disease the patient may suffer erratic behavior, memory loss, and the initial symptoms of Parkinsons disease. The final stage is full blown dementia as well as symptoms related to Parkinsons disease.
NO IT WASN'T!
This type of shit happens all the time. Fuck pro football.
That makes 8 players from the '94 team dead.
The Chargers defeated the heavily-favored Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1994 AFC Championship game. Within 18 months, Chargers running back Rodney Culver was killed in a plane crash in Florida and Chargers linebacker David Griggs died in a car accident. Linebacker Doug Miller was fatally struck by two bolts of lightning in July 1998 in Colorado. Center Curtis Whitley and defensive lineman Chris Mims both died in 2008, at age 39 and 38, respectively.[12] Defensive lineman Shawn Lee and linebacker Lew Bush both died in 2011 of cardiac arrest. Star linebacker Junior Seau was found dead in his Oceanside home on May 2, 2012. In total, 8 members of the Chargers' only Super Bowl team have died untimely deaths.
I don't remember him being one to have concussions, atleast not reported ones.
My wife and I were just debating about my son (8 years old) playing flag football later this year. He plays basketball, soccer and baseball, all very well (He has a GREAT basketball coach ).
She does not want him to play even flag football because she knows he will be good at it and she does not want him to like it, thus leading to later issues with denying him from playing tackle football.
I am starting to think she may be on to something.
MotionMan
My wife and I were just debating about my son (8 years old) playing flag football later this year. He plays basketball, soccer and baseball, all very well (He has a GREAT basketball coach ).
She does not want him to play even flag football because she knows he will be good at it and she does not want him to like it, thus leading to later issues with denying him from playing tackle football.
I am starting to think she may be on to something.
MotionMan
My wife and I were just debating about my son (8 years old) playing flag football later this year. He plays basketball, soccer and baseball, all very well (He has a GREAT basketball coach ).
She does not want him to play even flag football because she knows he will be good at it and she does not want him to like it, thus leading to later issues with denying him from playing tackle football.
I am starting to think she may be on to something.
MotionMan
Junior played many many years of professional football. A kid playing a few years of high school ball isn't a big deal.
Junior played many many years of professional football. A kid playing a few years of high school ball isn't a big deal.
If I have a kid they are not playing football or ice hockey... and I love hockey. Please listen to your wife, this stuff happens to even high school athletes.
What a selfless and heroic thing for JS to do.
Junior played many many years of professional football. A kid playing a few years of high school ball isn't a big deal.
I guess I can't blame you. I played and was pretty good. I know I had at least one concussion, but back then you just took some aspirin. There wasn't a lot of talk about concussions then. But most players come out fine with little or no issues.
Gunshot wound to chest.
He probably hid concsussions and wanted his brain autopsied. Concussions are much worse for you than previously thought, even small ones. New information is always coming out on this.
Another athlete did the same thing a few months back. Suicide by shot to chest, keeping brain intact for autopsy.