League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth, Paperback/Mark Fainaru-Wada
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PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYERS DO NOT SUSTAIN FREQUENT REPETITIVE
BLOWS TO THE BRAIN ON A REGULAR BASIS. So concluded the National
Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper on concussions
in America s most popular sport. That judgment, implausible even to
a casual fan, also contradicted the opinion of a growing cadre of
neuroscientists who worked in vain to convince the NFL that it was
facing a deadly new scourge: A chronic brain disease that was
driving an alarming number of players -- including some of the
all-time greats -- to madness. League of Denial reveals how the
NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, sought to cover up and
deny mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain
damage. Comprehensively, and for the first time, award-winning ESPN
investigative reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru tell
the story of a public health crisis that emerged from the playing
fields of our 21st century pastime. Everyone knew that football is
violent and dangerous. But what the players who built the NFL into
a $10 billion industry didn t know and what the league sought to
shield from them is that no amount of padding could protect the
human brain from the force generated by modern football; that the
very essence of the game could be exposing these players to brain
damage. In a fast-paced narrative that moves between the NFL
trenches, America s research labs and the boardrooms where the NFL
went to war against science, League of Denial examines how the
league used its power and resources to attack independent
scientists and elevate its own flawed research -- a campaign with
echoes of Big Tobacco s fight to deny the connection between
smoking and lung cancer. It chronicles the tragic fates of players
like Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster, who was
so disturbed at the time of his death he fantasized about shooting
NFL executives; and former Chargers great Junior Seau, whose
diseased brain became the target of an unseemly sci
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