Player’s Safe Exit
It takes a special kind of professional football player to walk away from cheering crowds and multimilliondollar paychecks. But that is what Chris Borland, a star rookie for the San Francisco 49ers, felt compelled to do in the face of mounting evidence that the game’s repetitive head trauma could leave him gravely and permanently damaged. “I just thought to myself, ‘What am I doing?’” the 24-year-old defensive player explained in an interview with ESPN. “ ‘Is this how I’m going to live my adult life, banging my head, especially with what I’ve learned and know about the dangers?’ ”
What the young man so gifted at tackling had researched was increasing evidence that long-term cognitive problems are linked to the repeated head trauma suffered in the violent hits that are part of football’s popularity.
Source: Newser.com
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