Mike Webster: CTE in the NFL 

Abundant Blessings, CTE awareness is vital. My brother collapsed while playing in a high school football game. Ramon, is a second impact syndrome survivor.

Imagine a soldier. He knows he might get hurt or injured. NFL players only know they might get a broken arm or leg. They aren’t aware of CTE thanks to the NFL not stating that CTE is a problem

Welp, not letting my kids play football.

Another player i recall who also had CTE was Shane Dronett of the Atlanta Falcons. Almost ten years to the day after he went to the Super Bowl with the Falcons and several years after retiring from the game he killed himself.

i like how the nfl tries to pretend that this shit isn't a problem in today's game. the players are gonna pay the price when the cleats finally get hung up...

Thank God! I stopped playing football in 9th grade. Only played tackle football in 8th and 9th grade that’s it. I know I don’t have CTE. NFL players know what they are signing up for. They get paid a lot of money in the NFL. CTE is a scary disease.

I have never been a huge fan of football but I liked it, even played it as a kid with friends. After seeing the movie Concussion with Will Smith I realized I could never support football again. Personally seeing the harsh realities has sucked all the joy out of the game for me and all I do if worry for the health of the players. Suffering concussion after concussion. Is it really worth it? For me, no. It’s Super Bowl Sunday today and a lot of my friends and family are all going nuts over it but I just can’t have the same joy that I used to watching it so personally I don’t. That’s just my opinion and I don’t expect everyone to feel that way and won’t shame anyone who enjoys football but I definitely think that everyone who loves football should watch that movie and be as informed as possible about the reality of CTE and other serious sports related injuries and issues. This video is very well made and I appreciate seeing someone trying to educate people about this subject. Well done.

Man I feel bad for Austin Collie I remember seeing him down and out several times in his nfl career. Hopefully he will be fine.

great video! I will be using this for a public relations case study project that I will be presenting. Thank you!

Money isn’t everything

--BULL IN THE RING..... who here that played pee wee football all the way up to high school has gone thru this explosive football practice drill?????? We did BULL IN THE RING every day at practice since I was a kid, this was a super violent drill that had many of us seeing stars and some times getting knocked out

Chris Benoit and Justin Strzelczyk and mike Webster were the change that unfortunately had to happen in pro sports. I understand one was a wrestler, it doesn’t matter at the end of the day

Mike Webster is still doing battle, thank you Mike for speaking out and proving the theory of CTE is real. May you rest in peace....

that hit on 83 for the steerlers is brutal his neck must of snapped damn f#$k!!!

This video gave me CTE

Damn man rip

Eliminating the penalty of passive interference as well as zone defenses could be a great trade off and it drastically lowers the risk of hits to the heads

Sadly, it's now alleged that Richard Sherman has CTE.

This is why the nfl is more dangerous than any other form of football for the rate of speed with powerful athletes

Imagine being 18 and realizing you have CTE after playing High School and College football. How bad would that be!? Your life would be ruined. Everything. No turning back. Since the disease cannot be stopped (for now). I feel so bad for those guys. They probably want to kill themselves. 😬Whyyyyyyyyyyyy

Song at 1:15 ??

whats the song

who was the former steeler that drove down the wrong side of the road tweaking? had the same cte shit

Can NFL Football actually be made safer? The new rules about hitting and helmet-to-helmet contact are helpful, and one can now see players using their shoulder more in hitting and tackling than even just 3 years ago. But even using the shoulder to hit with is still dangerous. The kinetic energy involved when a 210+ lb. player hits another at high speed is immense as are the G's encountered by the human brain. You can see this when a player hits another and the player who is the victim of the hit entirely changes direction near-instantly. The brain is moving forward and in a split second is moving backward, or to the side. This means that the brain is sloshed violently against the inside of the skull multiple times, thus creating injury. Can NFL Football ever be made safe for the human brain? I don't think so. I love football, but now every Sunday what I see are the hits and possible concussions or mild-traumas. Sad really.

Nice attempt on the video but the text moves so fast you don’t have time to read it.

am i the only one who loves the nfl?

Unfortunately football like rugby and boxing will never be a safe game as in all of these sports there will be all of these head injuries. The athletes though are getting paid millions and now know what the risks are so in the end it’s up to them if they want to risk it.

Really because of pads rugby is safer less blows to the head and repetitive blows to the head are the problem

I miss the old nfl

it was over 70 thousand hits, that seems to be a danger number eg mike Webster and Muhamad Ali

Football, particularly at the NFL level, is an insane game meant to be played insanely. You should either be allowed to destroy each other like the game is intended, or you should not play it at all. That's my feeling. These small measures are going to do virtually nothing to protect players, but diminishes the game enormously. Either get ready for CTE, and to live a short life as a god, or don't play football.

The fact that he died homeless and alone is so sad.

Here is the bottom line...the nfl is a dangerous game. If you don't want to suffer the consequences, then don't play. The idea of trying to make something "safe" where super humans collide is absurd.

sash died in 2015

I hate reading a video...

NOW possibly Aaron Hernandez .

Take off the helmets.

No disrespect to the players....but you have these thoughts or actions.... Get help immediately!!!!!

Would football be safer without the helmet?

Miss the old nfl

this is what happens when you monopolized Football over 100 years now they treat the players after there use like Ass wipe and say to there families Meh they knew the risks and that needs to stop but sadly how money and people love American Football and CFL where i am it'll never get better sadly... and that is the hard truth when people say "Oh i'll stop watching football but ye they still watch it on thanksgiving" or said season starts it's crack for the eyes and brain when we see these tackles

I hate this whole CTE myth, saying NFL ruined players lives. Yes it has a cost but that's the toll you take from making millions of dollars. If people are so concerned about violence, what about boxing? what about MMA? or even pro wrestling? Why don't they use headgears let alone ban the sport as well? Sports are supposed to be violent in nature. People talk about Mike Webster and Aron Hernandez but never mention Alan Page who became a jurist. They don't mention Steve Young who enrolled in Law School while having concussion warnings. There's a ton of people who had successful post careers in the headhunting era, but nobody's brave enough to point it out. As a result the league has become a flag football with inflated overachieved QBs and WR divas. We shouldn't only make America great again we should make football great again.

R u kidding me Richard Sherman just stop!

The NFL is going to be the NFL.....I'm playing Devil's adovcate.....but the result is you're going to get hit in the league..... And the padding and equipment is only 80% effective (in my opinion).... Point: The NFL is physical and the players better hang on!!!!

Wow, maybe i would actually watch football if it was still this violent. Modern football is boring af.

roids.

Nobody Globally cares about this sport anyway. Only US/Canada. Rest of the world views it as an inferior Rugby. Good riddance. Glad more US kids are not playing that CTE concussion sport.