Friday, October 2, 2009

964...NFL This Weekend: But At What Cost?

Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be Dallas Cowboys.

A week after the greatest college player of our era, Tim Tebow of Florida, was knocked out for two minutes and vomited several times after coming to there is this story by Sylvia Booth Hubbard that comes from Newsmax Health, an online magazine.

NFL Study: Players Face Huge Risk of Dementia

A study authorized by the National Football League has found a shockingly high rate of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia in the league’s retired players. Former football players ages 30 through 49 had memory-related diseases that were nineteen times higher than the rate found in the national population. The study also found that 6.1 percent of former NFL players aged 50 and over had been diagnosed with a form of dementia, a rate five times higher than the national average of 1.2 percent.
It is not just the NFL that has the problem; CBC's Fifth Estate ran a program earlier this year chronicling the demise of the linemen who played for the Edmonton Eskimos dynasty three decades ago.
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