During the question-and-answer session following NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s speech Thursday at the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Robert Stern stood up to ask a question.
Stern is a professor of neurology and neurosurgery at Boston University and the co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy.
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Notice how Greg quickly passes over the GREAt, GREAT compliment by Dr. Robert Stern directed at te NFL on its untiring efforts. How come the Globe never mentions that the National Hockey League (90 concussions this past year) has done virtually nothing in concussion related research compared to the NFL. You never hear about retired NHL players and the long term effects of concussion related injuries, do you? Speaking of retired, can Dupes scribble in his Sunday column (holy half boards that's what the Globe calls it) all the money Jeremy Jacobs and his band of unsparing philanthropists have deveoted to the study of concussions? And, while you're at it Dupes, with all this time on your hands, maybe you or Fluto can explain why Bob Kraft, who embraces player safety and saved football, recieves more criticism from the Globe than Jeremy Jacobs, who is nothing more than Gary Bettmen's puppeteer, in trying to break the player's union. Maybe we should just call him Mittsie.
OK, so there's only one kicker in the HOF. WHO is he? C'mon, Greg!
So, Greg, how come no one talks about DQing every player who leads with his head on a tackle? You start throwing players out for that, it'll stop pretty fast. No one has the guts to talk about or act on it, because it forces another discussion about --- wait for it --- MONEY. Money trumps health every time but no one --- not the NFLPA, the owners, the commissioner, the networks, the media or the fans --- wants to admit it.