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So, no. We don’t know the most critical answers around a tragic death. We don’t know if he had a brain injury, or whether there’s a connection between this tragic end and a legendary 20-year pro football career.
But we do know that football leads to concussions, and concussions can lead to depression, and depression can lead to suicide. The pattern is undeniable. We also know this chilling next paragraph to be true:
There is not only precedent for ex-football players killing themselves, but precedent for them doing it with a gunshot to the chest so their brains can be examined for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a form of brain damage related to blows to the head.
Think about that. It’s almost as though these former NFL players are teaching each other how to kill themselves without stunting the progress of science to hopefully learn more about an awful trend in which we are all conspirators.
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