Ken Stabler: Report claims National Football League legend had ‘quite severe’ CTE

Stabler agreed to donate his brain to Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, where researchers sliced it up and discovered the telltale signs of CTE, a degenerative disease associated with repeated head traumas.

Stabler had stage 3 CTE, according to Boston University researchers who studied his brain. Others include Junior Seau and Frank Gifford.

Bush, his life partner for the last 16 years, was not surprised.

Perhaps even more importantly, now that CTE cases often result in massive payouts to families of former players well after medical insurance has paid out large amounts in medical bills, how long until insurance premiums get totally out of hand?

“He played 15 seasons in the National Football League, gave up his body and, apparently, now his mind”, Alexa Stabler told the Times. There’s no doubt about it. Players are certainly well rewarded, but it doesn’t take the place of catastrophic brain injuries. “While we know on average that certain positions experience more repetitive head impacts and are more likely at greater risk for CTE, no position is immune”.

Stabler, the gun-slinging lefty, who was said to have read his playbook by the light of the jukebox at whatever watering hole he found himself in was a central player in several of the NFL’s most memorable games in the 1970s. He has been considered three times for the Pro Football Hall of Fame and his name is up for consideration again Saturday when members of the Pro Football Writers of America vote at Super Bowl 50.

Legendary quarterback Fran Tarkenton takes on a tough question: Who were the best ever to play the position? Under the current deal, Stabler’s family would not be eligible for compensation because Stabler’s CTE was diagnosed after April, the Times reported. And now Kenny Stabler.

“I don’t want to stack the bankbooks of players with enormous amounts of money who are then going to have dementia”, he said. 767 career winning percentage vs. Hall of Fame quarterbacks and run through his consistent success, career statistics and awards.

As awareness of CTE grows, more people are calling for concussion prevention not only in professional football and other sports but also in amateur sport. It’s helpful to remember that a concussion is a thing that happens, an action, not a thing that a player has. Last week, scientists announced that former Giants safety Tyler Sash, who died of an overdose in September aged 27, also suffered from CTE. “He said: ‘Yeah, I want to do that”.