Overwhelming

I found an article that I found to be really overwhelming.  It left me with a great deal of thought about players who have suffered from brain injuries and players who are currently suffering form them.  Here's a link to the article.

Ted Johnson was a former New England Patriots linebacker who suffered to what he thinks to be around 100 concussions when he played the game.  That is a gigantic number.  I have talked about players who have received like ten or so, but 100 is definitely the most I've heard of.  Johnson suffered greatly from these hits.  He said that he sometimes barely could get the energy to go and see his kids.  And when he returned home, he got rid of any light, and laid in bed the rest of the day.  He has said that he has suffered from depression, sleep disorders, and mental fatigue as a result from the amount of concussions he has playing football.

What I found most shocking from this article, was the fact that scientists are finding brain damage in 18 year old brains.  This was an amazing fact that I couldn't believe.  Brain damage taking place in that young of brain seems unreal.  I mean, I have always thought of brain damage and their effects as something that happens to adults later in life.  I would never have thought that the hits younger players are receiving to their heads are affecting them at that young of an age.

This article brings about some information that have yielded results that seem to compelling to ignore.  CTE is a major issue that has come from collisions to the head over and over again.  More and more players are affected from these hits and more people are looking into the side affects they can have.