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Parents should consider the potential danger of traumatic brain injuries when deciding to allow their children to play tackle football, legendary NFL quarterbackBrett Favreargued as part of a campaign with the Concussion Legacy Foundation released this week.
“Having kids play before high school is just not worth the risk,” the 51-year-old said in astatement, Tuesday. “CTE is a terrible disease, and we need to do everything we can to prevent it for the next generation of football players.”
Favre, who played 20 seasons in the NFL and won Super Bowl XXXI as the starting quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, is the focus of a poignantvideofrom the Concussion Legacy Foundation.
“I don’t know what normal feels like. Do I have CTE? I really don’t know,” Favre said in an interview onTodayon Tuesday. “Concussions are a very, very serious thing, and we’re just scraping the surface of how severe they are.”
“[There is] no telling how many concussions I’ve had, and what are the repercussions of that, there’s no answer,” he continued.
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Recently, former NFL quarterbackJay Cutlersaid he believes he is experiencing memory loss after playing 11 years in the league.
CTE has been a controversial topic for the NFL. While not all football players develop CTE, it is widespread — in a 2017 study of thebrains of 111 deceased NFL players, a Boston University researcher found 110 of them had the disease.
source: people.com
