“A human being will get concussed at sixty G’s. A common head-to-head contact on a football field? One hundred G’s. God did not intend for us to play football.” —”Concussion” (movie, 2015)
Actor Will Smith, as Dr. Bennett Omalu, had the theatrical liberty to postulate that repetitive helmeted/head impacts on the football field caused Mike Webster, Justin Strzelczky, Andre Waters and Dave Duerson to take their lives; he charged that they took their lives after they became emotionally unstable because they suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). That theatrical assertion was first chronicled and scientifically postulated by Omalu in a published paper in 2010, when he introduced the notion that suicidality was a clinical feature of CTE. Two years later, in 2012, six former NFL players committed suicide all by self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
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