Junior Seau 'oral history' details NFL culture of silence on head injuries

Junior Seau 'oral history' details NFL culture of silence on head injuries

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Quarterback Warren Moon tells GQ: 'For a man that compete linebacker for twenty years, he would've had a concussion'
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Junior Seau killed himself in could 2012. Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP
Junior Seau, the nice urban center Chargers linebacker United Nations agency killed himself in could 2012, didn't have a concussion diagnosed throughout his 20-year NFL career.

Speaking to GQ magazine, the previous Houston Oilers quarterback Warren Moon said: "One issue I browse that was peculiar to Pine Tree State – [Seau] had ne'er been diagnosed with a concussion. That tells Pine Tree State he wasn't news what was wrong with him. For a man that compete linebacker for twenty years, somewhere in there he would've had a concussion."

The magazine, in a very piece entitled "The Violent Life and overtime of Junior Seau", has sought-after to construct Associate in Nursing oral history of a case that has caused contestationbecause the NFL faces over three,000 lawsuits from former players United Nations agency have suffered head injuries.

The magazine spoke to variety of Seau's team-mates and friends regarding issues|the issues} visaged by players who are suffering head injuries and therefore the culture at intervals the NFL relating to news such problems. the previous Chargers guard Aaron Taylor said: "Guys keep things to themselves. They suck it up. It permits United States of America to be sensible soccer players, however it slices our throats on the rear finishas a result of we have a tendency to United States of Americaa similar tools during this new arena that permit us to achieve success throughout our careers."

In Nov last year, fifty six of players surveyed in Sporting News midseason poll aforementioned they'd hide symptoms of concussion so as to remain on the sector.

Seau retired in 2010, once a career during which he compete for the Chargers, the Miami Dolphins and therefore the geographic region Patriots and was selected to the professional Bowl twelve times. He was forty three years previous once he shot himself within the chest. In 2011, the previous Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson had killed himself within the same mannerdeparture a note during which he left his brain to research project.

In August 2012, autopsy results found no proof of trauma in Seau's brain. In Jan 2013, however, the National Institutes of Health aforementioned a study of Seau's brain had unconcealed abnormalities according to chronic traumatic brain disorder, or CTE. Later that month, Seau's family proclaimed that they were following a decease proceedings against the NFL. The Seau family conjointly proclaimed that they were suing Riddell, the maker of the helmets utilized in the NFL.

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Junior Seau's family ar suing the NFL and helmet maker Riddell. Photograph: Sandy Huffaker/Getty pictures
The proceedings against the NFL cited a 1993 film, NFL Rocks, during which Seau, asked however he felt regarding dealing out and taking such a big amount of hard hits, said: "If I will feel some giddinessi do know that guy is feeling double [that]."

Seau had a troubled retirement, tackling issues with alcohol, gambling and family life. In 2010, once being inactive on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend, he drove his automotive off a 30ft formation. Police investigated the incident, during which Seau wasn't dislocated, as a doable tried suicide. No charges were filed.

In the GQ piece, Taylor said: "The alcohol was a numbing-out of all the items that troubled him: he had money demands, he had familial problems, he had wedding problemsi do know he had deep, deep guilt regarding however he wasn't revelation as a father toward the tip."

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