'Former four-time Pro Bowl safety Dave Duerson, who committed suicide Thursday by shooting himself in the chest, sent text messages to family asking that his brain be examined for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a condition linked to more than a dozen deceased NFL players, The New York Times has reported. Duerson's family has agreed to donate his brain to Boston University's medical school for its study of the degenerative disease, which has been tied to depression, dementia and occasionally suicide in the former players, according to the report."
This was a pretty intense story. I always knew that the players in the NFL were taking some brutal head blows and I knew this issue was a very serious matter. But I didnt know it was this bad. CTE is just one of the many problems that ex NFL players but in Duersons case it was fatal.
-Josh Kantor
http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/news/story?id=6141129
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