Two Pro Football League Players Donate Their Brains To Science.
Two National Football League players, including one from this year’s Super Bowl-winning team, say they are donating their brains to medical research when they die. Steve Weatherford, a punter for the New York Giants, and Sidney Rice, who recently retired as a wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks, said this on Tuesday on Fox and Friends.
Rice, 28, said on Fox and Friends that he has had about 10 concussions in his life, starting when he was 8. “That’s the first time I had ever seen stars aside from the cartoon shows,” he said.
Weatherford, 32, told the program he has had only about two concussions as a professional football player, but added, “I am in it more to help generations after us. You study his brain by comparison to my brain,” referring to Rice.
“This is absolutely terrific,” says Susan Connors, president and CEO of the Brain Injury Association of America, which has declared March as Brain Injury Awareness Month. “When two high-profile athletes step up...I’m grateful to them.”
“It’s a great gesture,” says Chris Nowinski, co-founder and executive director of the Sports Legacy Institute, a nonprofit devoted to sports concussions policy and research. “It’s athletes really committing to a solution.”
Referring to Weatherford, Nowinski adds, “It’s rare to get somebody to sign up while they’re still playing, because of concerns about being perceived as a concussion case. It’s easier as a punter to make that commitment without people questioning whether you should be retiring from the concussions.”
Source Newsweek
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