NFL Can Watch Will Smith Film for Free
Among the players who have already seen the film is Pittsburgh’s Antonio Brown, who went this week with a high school football team, according to WPXI. “Americans are ideal and seek perfection in whatever they do, so I was simply being American to contribute my part to this wonderful country, to actually advance football”. “It’s a true story stretched into a battle of good vs. evil, and it was clear from the moment the ushers handed us stickers that read “#SaveThePlayers” which side they want viewers to join.
L-r, Will Smith, the real Bennet Omalu, and director Peter Landesman on the set of Columbia Pictures’ “Concussion”. On the eve of the movies release, though, an executive for the NFL Players Association has come out with unwavering support for the film, saying that its something “everyone in the NFL community should embrace”. “IBM, Apple, Exxon the National Football League – they are about the bottom line, but the game is lovely and graceful and powerful and human beings play it – fallible, frail humans who get hurt and injured and die”. They will protect their babies.
He believes the league has improved in the area of brain trauma, but said it probably will always be an issue because athletes are stubborn by nature.
Although CTE later in life may not be a pressing concern today for kids, concussions and brain injuries certainly are.
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“While that number does not represent success in our minds, it certainly is a trend in the right direction”, Miller said.
“So one of the things that we’re encouraged about is that the research that’s being done, the changes that are being made will filter down to other levels of football and other youth sports to make all youth sports safer”.
The heads behind “Concussion” aren’t wrong for using a movie to try to vocalize an important truth – that football can leave lasting injuries to the brain – but their advocacy could have been more productive by operating in the gray. The retired star player died unexpectedly after a multi-year struggle with depression, drug abuse, mood disorders and suicide attempts.
Dr. Betsy Nabel, the NFL’s chief health and medical advisor, told STAT this fall that CTE is “very complicated from a medical perspective, and I think it’s also complicated from a media-messaging perspective”. It’s more enjoyable to think of it as a pro-Will Smith movie. As he often said, ‘That’s where God sent all of his favorite people’.
“(Mike Webster) was adored by people, the city of Pittsburgh, but what we see is a man at the end of his life with dementia”, Morse said. “This is the story of guys like Mike Webster who suffered repeated trauma, practice after practice, day after day, game after game”. I’m a movie-goer. It’s not like I’m going to quit my job tomorrow.