A fifty year old man huddles in an old pickup truck, his ankles are wrapped in old socks and rags that can be seen scattered throughout the truck. There is a half used role of duct tape that he uses to attach a pen to his gnarled hand while he writes. Words and incoherent sentences are scrawled across pages and pages of a yellow legal pad. All of the letters that he writes are directed to the NFL about problems that they have ignored, pushed aside out of greed for money. A light flickers in the passenger seat; it’s a low battery sign for his Taser. He has found that the only way that he is able to sleep at night is to repeatedly shock himself into unconsciousness. He presses the taser against his inner thigh, convulses for a few seconds, and
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When the findings were initially presented they were dismissed by the NFL, and only after repeated evidence was presented, did the NFL decided to change some of its rules in order to prevent the same thing from happening in the future. Webster’s case was different from anything anyone had seen at the time. He was a hall of fame player who seemingly owed all of his success in life to the game of football. But he was also the same man who later spoke up, more erratically as time went by, about how the game had ruined him. Dr. Bennet Omalu’s, a forensic neuropathologist, mad the unusual decision to save Webster's brain and this may be the reason that today there are not as many concussions as there were 20 years ago. Rules implemented by the NFL in 2013 regarding CTE have prevented numerus brain injuries but there are certainly more that can be prevented and could have been prevented if the rules were made …show more content…
That year the NFL created the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee in what could have been a valuable tool for learning more about head injuries. The MTBI’s job was to analyze the data for concussions and see if there was anything that could or should be done about them. Unfortunately the problem with this committee was that it was run by doctors who had very little background in neuroscience. It also appeared that whenever new cases surfaced about players being affected by concussions, or concussions being mistreated, the committee seemed more interested in discrediting the person who published the finding instead of working on a
When the findings were initially presented they were dismissed by the NFL, and only after repeated evidence was presented, did the NFL decided to change some of its rules in order to prevent the same thing from happening in the future. Webster’s case was different from anything anyone had seen at the time. He was a hall of fame player who seemingly owed all of his success in life to the game of football. But he was also the same man who later spoke up, more erratically as time went by, about how the game had ruined him. Dr. Bennet Omalu’s, a forensic neuropathologist, mad the unusual decision to save Webster's brain and this may be the reason that today there are not as many concussions as there were 20 years ago. Rules implemented by the NFL in 2013 regarding CTE have prevented numerus brain injuries but there are certainly more that can be prevented and could have been prevented if the rules were made …show more content…
That year the NFL created the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee in what could have been a valuable tool for learning more about head injuries. The MTBI’s job was to analyze the data for concussions and see if there was anything that could or should be done about them. Unfortunately the problem with this committee was that it was run by doctors who had very little background in neuroscience. It also appeared that whenever new cases surfaced about players being affected by concussions, or concussions being mistreated, the committee seemed more interested in discrediting the person who published the finding instead of working on a