The Super Bowl dominates the media like no other event. But when
a Super Bowl winning quarterback is voted into the Hall of Fame the
day before the big game and just several days after it was revealed
that he had CTE, the equation starts to change.
It's not that football-related concussions are just a recent
phenomenon. As early as the January 5, 1905 edition of the Harvard
Crimson, 111 years ago, there was a report on the work of the
Harvard football team doctor regarding concussions:
"Cases of concussion were frequent, both during practice and
games. In fact but two games were played during the entire season
in which a case of concussion of the brain did not occur."
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