If football is your passion in life and you would rather play football for 20 years and have a shortened life span, that's your choice.
It's almost un-American to say that you want to change football.
Dave Duerson had classic pathology of CTE and no evidence of any other disease.
I started out as a neurologist. I then trained in neuropathology and was focused on neurodegeneration. So, for years, I studied Alzheimer's, aging, Parkinson's, that kind of thing.
We're hoping that there is large-scale recognition that CTE is a risk when playing football.
Our national identity is so interwoven with football.
