Summary: The Importance Of Head Injury In Football

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In the video the League of Denial there is a lot of discussion about how head injuries are related to football. This proclamation was denied for years by the National Football League or the NFL. This doubt that the NFL had went on for years even though there was scientific evidence that football was causing deadly head injuries.
Monday night football, a night anticipated by millions of Americans every week. The thrill of watching your favorite football teams push, shove, and tackle for a win. What spectators don’t know is that there is a deadly disease hidden in the game. This disease is not found in the knees, arms, or back. This disease is actually found in the brain. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE is a progressive neurodegenerative …show more content…
Tau Protein is protein that stabilizes microtubules. This dangerous discovery was uncovered by Dr. Omula while doing an autopsy on Mike Webster. Webster was a beloved football player who played 16 years of football. Webster was a well known defensive center for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and he had gained the nickname Iron Mike. These years of football gave Mike four Super Bowl victories and amnesia, dementia, and depression. So I wonder were all those years of football worth it? Post Webster’s retirement family members noticed his life crumbled away as he began living out of his car, and could barely keep up a conversation with someone because of his terrible dementia and amnesia. Wester thought enough was enough and hired a lawyer to be granted monthly disability checks from the NFL. The NFL fired back and hired an investigator and doctor to see if Webster was really suffering from amnesia, depression, and dementia. The NFL came to a conclusion that he was impaired with those brain injuries and would receive his monthly disability checks. The NFL shockingly came out and stated that all those brain injuries were in fact caused by football. Many other players paid the same price as Webster such as the Steelers former …show more content…
Many people questioned the NFL about football being the cause to head injuries. The NFL was able to ignore these complaints for a while, but eventually put together a team of “qualified” doctors to seek the answer known as MTBI. Elliot Pellman, the Jets team doctor was head of the team, and had no experience in neuro. The MTBI published several magazines titled Neurosurgery. These magazines were meant to dispute any allegations made against the NFL relating head injuries. Dr. Omalu even published his findings on CTE (which was supported by many neurosurgeons at the time) in the magazine. His research was attacked by the MTBI, and they stated that football had nothing to do with CTE. Pellman was replaced by Dr. Ira Casson a neurosurgeon! But this neurosurgeon believed that football had nothing to do with sports injuries. The NFL first recognized the idea that football could possibly have something to do with head was when a scientific study of former players commissioned by the NFL was leaked. In the study it was discovered that NFL players had dementia and Alzheimer’s at a much higher rate than people in the regular community. The NFL finally did something about this epidemic and started the Heads Up program for
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