I do too and I think that post was in jest. Theres not going to be some influx of players/former players doing shit hoping to get away with it by blaming it on CTE.
Fuck Aaron Hernandez Also, CBS news just said "this was the most severe case of CTE we've seen in someone his age." How many fucking 27-year-old brains have they dissected?
"he walked on an insanity defense wow the system is so corrupt" *ignores the part where the guy spends the next 50 years in an insane asylum*
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...f60b5a6c4a0_story.html?utm_term=.ac10a2aa7790 Aaron Hernandez suffered from most severe CTE ever found in a person his age Adam Kilgore November 9 at 3:50 PM BOSTON — Aaron Hernandez suffered the most severe case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy ever discovered in a person his age, damage that would have significantly affected his decision-making, judgment and cognition, researchers at Boston University revealed at a medical conference Thursday. Ann McKee, the head of BU’s CTE Center, which has studied the disease caused by repetitive brain trauma for more than a decade, called Hernandez’s brain “one of the most significant contributions to our work” because of the brain’s pristine condition and the rare opportunity to study the disease in a 27-year-old. Hernandez, a former New England Patriots tight end, hanged himself with a bedsheet in April in a Massachusetts prison while serving a life sentence for the murder of his friend Odin Lloyd in 2013. In a diagnosis that linked one of football’s most notorious figures with the sport’s most significant health risk, doctors found Hernandez had Stage 3 CTE, which researchers had never seen in a brain younger than 46 years old, McKee said. Because the center has received few brains from people Hernandez’s age, McKee could not say whether Hernandez’s brain was representative of a 27-year-old who had played football as much as Hernandez. But she found the advanced stage of CTE alarming. [The NFL studied every concussion over two seasons. What happens next may be up to manufacturers.] Play Video 2:00 What is CTE? CTE, a brain degeneration disease, has been found in the brains of deceased NFL Hall of Famers. Here's what you need to know about it. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) “In this age group, he’s clearly at the severe end of the spectrum,” McKee said. “There is a concern that we’re seeing accelerated disease in young athletes. Whether or not that’s because they’re playing more aggressively or if they’re starting at younger ages, we don’t know. But we are seeing ravages of this disease, in this specific example, of a young person.” At Thursday’s conference, McKee flipped through slides comparing sections of Hernandez’s brain to a sample without CTE. Hernandez’s brain had dark spots associated with tau protein and shrunken, withered areas, compared to immaculate white of the sample. His brain had significant damage to the frontal lobe, which impacts a person’s ability to make decisions and moderate behavior. As some new slides appeared on the projectors, some physicians and conference attendees gasped. “We can’t take the pathology and explain the behavior,” McKee said. “But we can say collectively, in our collective experience, that individuals with CTE, and CTE of this severity, have difficulty with impulse control, decision-making, inhibition of impulses for aggression, emotional volatility, rage behaviors. We know that collectively.” McKee said Hernandez had a genetic marker that makes people vulnerable to certain brain diseases and could have contributed to how aggressively he developed CTE. “We know that that’s a risk factor for neurogenerative disease,” McKee said. “Whether or not that contributed in this case is speculative. It may explain some of his susceptibility to this disease.” The condition of Hernandez’s brain, pristine because of his age and the adept handling of medical examiners, could lead to future breakthroughs and better understanding of CTE. For example, researchers could better study the interaction of inflammation and tau pathology through the use of fluorescent stains. It gave researchers their best view yet of a marker associated with CTE. “We are able to understand this disease at the scientific level in a way that’s very rarely presented,” McKee said. “We’re very grateful to the family for making this donation. We’re hoping this will advance medical science in a very significant way. . . . This will really accelerate and advance our research going forward.” an NFL study consisting of video reviews of the 459 known concussions that occurred over the 2015 and 2016 seasons, from preseason games through the playoffs The NFL has attempted to make the sport safer for its players, through rule changes, policies designed to remove concussed players and technologic advances. But brain trauma occurs when a football player’s brain accelerates or decelerates after it hits another player or the turf, bashing the sides of the head, an action a helmet is defenseless against. “It happens inside the skull,” McKee said. “It’s an intrinsic component of football.”
Oxygen's new docu-series “Aaron Hernandez Uncovered” premiers with a two-night event on Saturday, March 17 at 7PM ET/PT and Sunday, March 18 at 7PM ET/P
It's some law in Massachusetts. Go back a page or 2 right after he killed himself and you'll see the discussion
With his twink tendencies you would think he would've foregone suicide and continued to turn tight ends into wide receivers in prison. http://www.tmz.com/2018/03/17/aaron-hernandez-gay-tortured-secret-uncovered-oxygen/ Aaron Hernandez was gay -- according to several people close to him ... and his private struggle with his sexuality caused him great emotional pain that may have turned him violent. It's all part of the Oxygen documentary, "Aaron Hernandez Uncovered" -- which features interviews with Aaron's close friends, ex-girlfriends and members of his legal team. Aaron's college girlfriend, Alyssa Anderson, says she first learned Aaron had a relationship with a man while they were attending the University of Florida ... but he denied it at the time. It was only years later that Hernandez cryptically acknowledged her suspicions were true.
Did you not want to give Deadspin the clicks? They linked it in their article https://apps.bostonglobe.com/spotlight/gladiator/bristol/
Gladiator; Aaron Hernandez podcast about this is available. Just listened to the first episode. Its good
I get a subscriber block. I typically just go for the article and go to it from there. Always lets me read it that way.
I’m watching a cold case show on Oxygen right now and they’re narrowing in on tony joiner for the murder of his girlfriend. Don’t recall ever hearing about this. Tack on another murder to that 2007 UF squad. https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/09/us/florida-gators-tony-joiner-murder/index.html
It’s so nice seeing an arkadin post and realizing what a blessing it is that he doesn’t post anymore.