Pitt announces foundation named for ‘Concussion’ doctor

Sony Pictures, which will release “Concussion” on Christmas Day, issued a statement on Thursday that also noted “competing interests and agendas” in the field. “I never had any reasonable encounter with football”, Omalu said.

“This is about the truth and seeking the truth – what does the truth do?” My initial reaction was to prematurely interpret some of the rhetoric I read and saw in the trailer as an attack on the NFL. What ensued was an enlightening exchange about the motivations of his character, his research techniques, the heroic sacrifice of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the advancements in medical screening for head trauma vulnerability and much more.

CTE has been found mostly in athletes who play contact sports, such as football.

“I think there definitely was a cover-up by the league”. Those are the people that are actually moving the puppet strings.

However Omalu says “it’s not about concussions”. “Even against evidence that suggests folks are being harmed”.

When he examined Webster, Omalu found changes that amounted to the first hard evidence that playing football could cause lasting brain damage. All this and more can be seen in “Omalu”. “So, it was fun to play an intellectual villain”.

With Concussion spotlighting the impact of football-related brain injuries, the film’s producers, Giannina Scott and her husband, Ridley Scott, hope to to pick up where the film has left off.

It’s simple-as stated in the upcoming film: tell the truth, NFL. That’s why it’s so important. “He gave up everything to bring this information to the world, and it didn’t matter how much they tried to stop him, everything he lost, he continued his work”. And that’s a problem.

“Concussion” is a movie about selfless heroism in the face of an overwhelming adversary. The NFL has a dirty habit of wanting to cover up the truth with threats, payoffs, lies, and half-truths. “Otherwise he wouldn’t know what to be looking for”. “We all need to be joyful people, ’cause life can be wonderful if we choose to make it wonderful”. Dr. Omalu’s dedication to CTE and TBI sufferers and their families inspired a broad group of supporters from the scientific community, as well as from the sports, arts, and entertainment worlds to launch a foundation in his name. USA Football says it has trained 150,000 coaches in 6,300 youth leagues and 1,100 high schools. But I still played, because very often the things we love most in life will be the ones that kill us.

The NFL has had a number of run-ins with Hollywood over the years.

McCrea is a consultant and game-day doctor for the Packers as well as a top researcher of brain trauma. Just like anything else, the game has to evolve. Bales, a former team physician with the Steelers, is also featured in the film as one of the leading figures in the push to draw a correlation between football and C.T.E. Come on, I’m a yogi sister! Not everyone is going to get CTE. The insight-free narrative approach of “Concussion” mostly involves Omalu’s breakthrough, the league’s denial, the doctor (made out to be a hero, saint and victim) saying, “Yes”, the league saying “No”, and so forth until the league can’t say no anymore.

First of all, it premeres to the masses on December 25th which goes to show you just how highly it thinks of itself sharing the same birthday as Jesus. The film also stars Alec Baldwin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Paul Reiser, Luke Wilson, Hill Harper, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. In the meantime, you can check out Hill every week on the critically-acclaimed CBS dramatic series “Limitless”.