The league now plans to encourage current and former NFL players to agree to donate their brains to the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, which has said it found links between repeated head trauma and brain damage in boxers, football players and, most recently, a former NHL player.Here's hoping that Chuck Cecil can be persuaded to posthumously join the study.
December 21, 2009
The NFL wants brains
The NFL and Boston University are teaming up for brain research (via):
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