@Professor42
Professor Z
@Professor42 · 5:00

Antonio Brown/CTE In The NFL

Additionally, I would say that people are not aware of how severe or how serious a disease like CTE is, or perhaps may not even know what it is, and if you do not know what it is, it is a neurodegenerative disease that slowly affects your personality, how you react to things, motor functions, everything. And instead of having some empathy for what could possibly be CTE within Tony O'Brown, people are just mocking him

Why is something like CTE a meme? Or Something to crack jokes at?

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@MysticScientist
Indy Rishi Singh
@MysticScientist · 1:23
It's interesting thinking about the CTE stuff because I had a student years ago whose mother pushed me to convince him to leave playing football, which was really tough because he loved it. But we had a discussion. We actually had several discussions, and he ended up leaving. But he was getting concussions. And it was like really affecting his mood and behavior. And such a great kid was like, literally his behavior was changing because of the concussion
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@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 4:49

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I wanted a doctor to assess that and clear the athlete to play before they could come in and play again. I don't know why the NFL doesn't have something like that. They have protocol, but it just seems like it's kind of, hey, rub some dirt on it, and he's better go ahead. Go back in. I really think if they were going to take this thing seriously, they would do much more rigorous testing to figure out. Is there something going on?
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Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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@Taylor
Taylor J
@Taylor · 3:27
There's something new that's happening with these professional athletes that's just horrendous, you know, and we have to basically watch someone blow their whole life up without proper support. I think that's what really bugs me. And I think back on what happened with Crispinois and his murder suicide of his family. And you saw that and you were like, man, this can't get any worse, but it can in the sense that nobody's doing anything about it
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