A new study reports that kids who play tackle football early in life will probably experience
an early onset of degenerative brain disease.
The study will likely create more controversy within the NFL, the NCAA, and football fans,
as medical studies like this directly challenge the profitability of the sport.
Joining me now to talk about this is RT correspondent, Brigida Santos.
Brigida, what did this new study find and who actually performed this study?
This study was performed by researchers at Boston University and what they found is that
children who played tackle football before the age of 12 are suffering from degenerative
brain disorders like chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
CTE, of course, has been found in the brains of athletes and this comes in the form of
increased deposits of Tau proteins, and those proteins are what destroy the brain.
Now, this study was published in the Annals of Neurology and it was carried out by those
same researchers who had initially revealed that CTE was found in 99% of all NFL players
that they had studied previously.
When CTE was first discovered, the NFL did not act on these findings appropriately at
all.
Can you tell us what the reaction was back then and what do they have to do ... What
do they have to say, actually, about this new study, if they have anything to say at
all?
Back then, they had denied for about two decades and even dumped many of their resources into
denying the link between brain trauma and concussions.
When it comes to this new study, it's unclear.
Now, I know that they have had to pay out $765 million in settlements and they have
also since changed some of their rules, imposing penalties and fines on players who initiate
head to head contact during games, but they haven't really said what their position is
on these children getting this disorder.
And, of course, children are going to get it if they're engaging in the same activities
that cause it in adults.
You know, it's really interesting, actually.
A month or two ago, there was an update to that NFL CTE settlement story talking about
the fact that the majority of that money has not been paid out.
The NFL is not holding up their part of the bargain to make these people whole again after
basically lying and covering up the fact that they've been destroying their brains and doing
nothing about it.
Anyway, we do have that point, the NFL did their thing, allegedly, but for kids who are
playing this game, they're under the age of 12, what protocols or warnings are even in
place in these leagues that are allowing parents to know about the risks here?
It's unclear.
As far as I can tell, there are no standards set across the board for these leagues.
Now, I do know that former NFL players have been trying to educate parents and, in fact,
they've started the Concussion Legacy Foundation, which is a website where parents can go and
get information.
I know that in at least four states, lawmakers are trying to ban tackle football in schools
for children or at least restrict it to children ages 12 and up.
It's unfortunate that there are no standards because the earlier that children play, the
earlier they're going to be exhibiting some of these symptoms of degenerative brain disorders.
In fact, on average, I believe it's about 13 years earlier that they'll show these signs
than adults who play tackle football.
What is the NCAA, the college athletics, that's obviously a huge thing, I live down here in
the South, it's one of the biggest things in the world, but what is their position on
any of these medical studies and the findings of CTE, because they've been a lot more lax
about this than the NFL has.
They're just now starting to face litigation and we do not yet know what their official
position is.
However, they will likely reveal that position this June when for the first time in Ploetz
versus the NCAA, a battle over CTE will be heard in court for the first time.
As of now, any cases involving CTE have only been settled.
They have yet to go to trial.
This will be the first one and that's when the NCAA is going to reveal its position.
We really don't know yet what it's going to do, but I imagine it's going to try to do
exactly what the NFL has done and deny those payments to people and do everything it can
to pretend this doesn't exist.
The bottom line on all of this is just taking care of these athletes, letting the parents
and the players and the professionals and the college athletes, letting them fully understand
the risks and then letting them make that informed decision about whether or not that's
a risk they're willing to take.
Is this what they want to do with their future?
Do they want to possibly have degenerative brain disease 13 years earlier than should
be?
It's all about the choice.
When you do not give them the facts, when you do not let them know what's actually happening,
you are taking that choice away from these people, and that is why we have these lawsuits,
that is why we had the settlement, because they're taking away people's right to make
an informed choice.
Brigida Santos, thank you for joining me today.
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