\u201cI know the sports are different and they bang heads up to 25,000 times in a career, they say, in the NFL, but what is happening and what is unfolding now over there\u2026 and it is no longer being disputed — it is fact. It is actually happening\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cFor example the symptoms are things like violent mood swings, depression and the amount of players who have taken their own lives and done horrible things in the NFL and have later been diagnosed with CTE is frightening\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd this is what is really worrying because you hear great stories about people in the country who play 500 [Aussie rules] games and are still playing at 45 and they talk about every 10 years you play you double your chances of getting CTE.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is scary for those people who are the lifeblood of grassroots footy and they don\u2019t have a safety net that people at the very top end have.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n