CTE in football players is a health crisis. It’s time for us to stop watching
A new study offers more evidence that America’s biggest sport produces life-altering head trauma. The NFL will never turn itself off, so it’s on fans to do so As a new NFL season begins this Wednesday, the danger of America’s most-watched sport has never been more clear. A new and widely circulated study published in the British Journal of Medicine examined the donated brains of former NFL…
A new study published in the British Journal of Medicine reveals a concerning finding about the prevalence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) among former NFL players. The research, which examined the donated brains of 235 deceased players who died between 2016 and 2021, found that 215 of them exhibited signs of the degenerative brain condition.
This means that the rate of CTE among these players is estimated to be between 24.5% and 97.7%. While the NFL is unlikely to cease operations anytime soon, it is up to fans to take a stand against the health crisis that the sport poses.
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