http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/league-of-denial/

 

Did anyone else watch the PBS Frontline episode on CTE in football, and how the NFL has handled it historically? I haven't quite finished it (got about 15 minutes left to finish on the DVR), but it is an interesting show so far.

 

Thoughts?

I missed it last night (dinner at the parents') but I plan on watching it tonight. This is the one that the NFL forced ESPN to pull out of.

I missed it last night (dinner at the parents') but I plan on watching it tonight. This is the one that the NFL forced ESPN to pull out of.

 

There is an ESPN reporter who is in the special.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/sports/f...ed=all&_r=0

 

On Thursday, ESPN, which has spent heavily in recent years to build its investigative reporting team, abruptly ended its affiliation with “Frontline,” a public affairs television series that was weeks from showing a jointly produced two-part investigative project about the N.F.L.’s contentious handling of head injuries. The divorce came a week after the N.F.L. voiced its displeasure with the documentary at a lunch between league and ESPN executives, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation.

 

They were involved with the project for over a year, but left abruptly earlier this year.

Here is an article from teh show...

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sp...ex-nfl-players/

Also the link to watch the show on-line

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/league-of-denial/

Is there any episode of Frontline that isn't meant to enrage and/or depress you?

Is there any episode of Frontline that isn't meant to enrage and/or depress you?

 

Next on Frontline, why orphans and puppies should be murdered.

Next on Frontline, why orphans and puppies should be murdered.

No, no, it'll be about how orphans and puppies are murdered by banks in coal mines that are polluting the water tables and also kicking the poors while having corrupt police shoot you.

No, no, it'll be about how orphans and puppies are murdered by banks in coal mines that are polluting the water tables and also kicking the poors while having corrupt police shoot you.

 

Except the police have to be Muslims.

I did watch about an hour. Was amazed that only 20 something reporters covered that press conference at the Super Bowl in 2009. seems like a story right in their wheel house. Also that NFL doctor (Dr. NO) is a freaking bad person.

I did watch about an hour. Was amazed that only 20 something reporters covered that press conference at the Super Bowl in 2009. seems like a story right in their wheel house. Also that NFL doctor (Dr. NO) is a freaking bad person.

 

The parts that shocked me were the 18 and 21 year old's they found with CTE, and that the female Dr who was doing the brain exams found 45 of 46 ex-NFLers brains had CTE.

I did watch about an hour. Was amazed that only 20 something reporters covered that press conference at the Super Bowl in 2009. seems like a story right in their wheel house. Also that NFL doctor (Dr. NO) is a freaking bad person.

Urge to kill shill doctors...rising

I believe there is some irony that advances in helmets that were suppose to protect the brain may actually contribute to more brain injuries than leather and no face masks.