CTE is becoming all to real with the NFL. With multiple players being documented of having it and some even dying in relation to. The NFL has been doing all they can to reduce the number of concussions to its player, but with football being such a physical game, the options are limited.
In theaters Christmas Day, the movie “Concussion” stars Will Smith who portrays Dr. Bennet Omalu; the doctor who brought light of CTE to the NFL. The movie which is said not to make the NFL look bad, but to help fans, players and even executives, get an idea of how it all began and the effect it has on some of our favorite players.
Notably, Jets corner Darrelle Revis, recently saw the movie and he said it hit home pretty hard.
“It makes you think about other things, but at the same time, I think I’ve still got a lot of football to play,” Revis said Thursday, via Newsday, by way of Eye on Football. But you never know with these things. This is something serious.”
Revis said the scenes about Mike Webster, who became the first NFL player diagnosed with CTE and died at the age of 50, had the most impact.
“It hit home pretty hard,” he said.
“There’s a lot of things you have to push to the side to do this job,” he said. “I’m not going to approach it any differently than I did any other injury that I had. I think we’re very strong-willed individuals playing in this game, in terms of injuries or pain tolerance. And you just try to fight through those things to play the game you love.”
I can only imagine how scary it is for players to see this movie knowing that can be them. It’s a tough pill to swallow, but a necessity in shedding light to ensure our players are around for a long time.
