“This is Stabler’s fourth time as a finalist”.
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In October, Boston University and the Department of Veterans Affairs researchers said 87 out of 91 former National Football League players who donated their brains to science after death tested positive for CTE.
Interesting timing on the release of the news today that former Raider great and HOF candidate Ken Stabler had a severe case of C.T.E. He was a second-round pick of the Oakland Raiders in 1968 out of the University of Alabama and was the Raiders starting quarterback from 1971 to 1979.
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“We were targeted. Everybody used to say, you knock the quarterback out and you’re going to win the game, probably”.
“I had Raiders season tickets from the time I was in law school (at Cal) and Kenny Stabler was the quarterback”, he said.
“He had moderately severe disease”, said Dr. Ann McKee, chief of neuropathology at the V.A. Boston Healthcare System and conductor of the examination, via John Branch of the New York Times.
Stabler, who died past year of colon cancer at 69, is one of the highest-profile players to have had CTE.
“My feelings are all over the place”, she told The Sports Xchange Wednesday. Of the 94 former players’ brains that BU has examined, 90 had some form of CTE.
“On some days, when he wasn’t feeling extremely bad, things were kind of normal”, Kim Bush, Stabler’s partner, told the Times. In her interview with ESPN, Bush said Stabler began repeating stories and also had trouble sleeping.
Kramer, who just turned 80, said he is on the lookout for symptoms that have attacked his friends and former teammates. “And it was. It was, in fact, rattling”.
Stabler left his brain to doctors in hopes of uncovering why, only in his late 60s, he showed signs of dementia and could not take bright lights and noises.
The results of that research have come back and it confirms that Stabler suffered from CTE. The only real surprise is that anyone is surprised-and that anyone thinks they know what it means.
“As far as symptoms, I don’t have anything”, he added. We issued a white paper that I sent to every single (NFL) team that advocated no blocking and tackling with the head, neurologists on the sidelines, standardized regimen of diagnosis and treatment and helmet changes.
Just after Morrall died, his family said that the cause was Parkinson’s disease. “To me, that’s the next step and the next evolution of football”. But true to his spirit he always said he would do it again tomorrow.
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“The game is so much a part of who I am, so I can’t give up a big part of me”, Denver linebacker Brandon Marshall said.
