The concussion crisis in football is getting harder and harder to ignore. The sport is trying to change the rules to protect players, but danger could be too deep in its DNA.
Further reading:
PBS' great coverage of this issue: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/league-of-denial/
Boston University's CTE Center: http://www.bu.edu/cte/about/what-is-cte/
League of Denial Q&A (sbnation) http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2013/10/9/4817818/league-of-denial-nfl-concussion-crisis-authors-interview-pbs-frontline
"Does Football have a future?" (The New Yorker) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/01/31/does-football-have-a-future
Written by Joseph Stromberg
Produced by Joss Fong, Joe Posner, Alex Hawley
Images courtesy of Getty Images
Video footage from:
"League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis" (PBS FRONTLINE) http://video.pbs.org/video/2365093675/
"Casualties of the Gridiron" (GQ Magazine)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H203KkqimqI&list=PL0hKMB1-xkc-T3mmvkes9q1Y25otfMfTX#t=0
"Brett Favre on NFL, Concussions" (NBC Today show)
http://www.today.com/news/brett-favre-nfl-concussions-toll-has-got-be-pretty-high-2D11603374
Fight Films Guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZc-5HBaWsk
ClassicBoxingSociety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FEjWjB6UJc&list=UUJW2lNFwuVGIQkLcjY5vFiA
FootzStomp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0_rXN5itlg
Michael Boothe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB6oo7eQT20
James Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qi9IdLSw9Q
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