Comments on: Chuck Noll Foundation for Brain Injury Research to Open in Pittsburgh https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2016/11/18/chuck-noll-foundation-for-brain-injury-research-to-open-in-pittsburgh/ An Introspective Steelers Site Mon, 18 Feb 2019 04:42:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: hombredeacero https://goingdeepsteelers.org/2016/11/18/chuck-noll-foundation-for-brain-injury-research-to-open-in-pittsburgh/#comment-4402 Sat, 19 Nov 2016 04:15:04 +0000 http://goingdeepsteelers.org/?p=13202#comment-4402 I too am glad to see the Steelers doing the right thing. I remember Ed Bouchette writing, a few years back, about how the Dr’s didn’t want to let Bubby Brister play because of a concussion, and Noll pushed back wanting to know why. Based on that, the Steelers (probably Dr. Maroon) developed the first cognitive test.

Like you, I wonder if football will survive the CTE crisis.

My heart very much wants it to. My head is more skeptical.

But the only way it survives, is to do serious research.

Right now Dr. Bennett Omalu says that better helmets are not the answer. His logic is sound. But it is also true that on the day that MIke Webster was drafted, the idea of someone reaching into their pocket, and picking up a hand held device and talking to someone around the world was pure science fiction. So was the idea of an amputee running a marathon.

Today, both are reality…..

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