Every week in the NFL players are leaving games due to hits to the helmet. This leaves them with major concussions or spinal injuries that keep them out for weeks at a time. Players have had careers ended due to too many head on collisions such as Troy Aikman, who was one of the best quarterbacks of the 1990s. Darryl Stingley was a wide receiver who played for the New England Patriots in the 1970s. This hit by Jack Tatum on Stingley left Darryl paralyzed as a quadriplegic, confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life up until his death in 2007.
With more and more terrible injuries happening in recent years the NFL has joined up with The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at the Boston University School of Medicine to do experimental research on the effects of these hits. Over 20 current and former NFL players have agreed to donate their brian and spinal cord tissue to science upon death so that researchers can study the effects of repeated head trauma on the nervous system.
With this experimental research, the NFL is hoping to one day find a cure of how to prevent so many terrible injuries. If a cure can be found it can prevent many future horrific injuries.
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