Protecting the institution is paramount

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell talking about concussion related injuries to former NFL players.

To those who are regular readers of articles in this space this writer sometimes takes a different path from what is usually found here. This is one of those times.

Last night I saw the 2015 film "Concussion", an American biographical sports drama starring Will Smith as Dr. Bennett Omalu, a forensic pathologist at the Brain Injury Research Institute in Pittsburgh, PA. He was the pathologist who first discovered Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) following his autopsy of former Pittsburgh Steelers great Mike Webster in 2002. He died at age 50 being the first former NFL player diagnosed with CTE discovered by Dr. Omalu. He also performed autopsy's of eight other former NFL players determining they all suffered from CTE.

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