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Buch (Softcover): Ratgeber
The Price of The Game
American Football, CTE, and the Crisis the NFL Didn't Want You to Know About
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36823502
EAN: 9798190564242
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Zustellung: Di, 10.11.2026
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Beschreibung
In September 2002, a young Nigerian-born forensic pathologist named Bennet Omalu walked into his autopsy room in Pittsburgh and found the body of Mike Webster - one of the greatest football players who ever lived - looking decades older than fifty. When Omalu examined Webster's brain, he found something the NFL had been, in effect, paying not to find. He found chronic traumatic encephalopathy. CTE. What followed was one of the most consequential battles in American sports history: a league with billions of dollars in annual revenue, deploying the same disinformation playbook as the tobacco industry, against scientists who had documented what football does to the brains of the people who play it. The Price of the Game. tells the full story in five parts:. The Game They Loved. - How football became America's dominant sport, and the specific physics of what happens to a brain when a helmet stops moving but the brain doesn't. Why it's the routine hits - not the dramatic concussions - that primarily cause CTE. The Discovery. - Bennet Omalu's autopsy, his peer-reviewed paper in Neurosurgery, and the NFL's response: calling for retraction, attacking his credibility, privately warning him about "the implications of what you're doing. " The League of Denial and its parallels to Big Tobacco. The Human Cost. - Mike Webster, who spent his last years sleeping in a truck. Dave Duerson, who shot himself in the chest so his brain could be studied. Junior Seau, the Hall of Fame linebacker reduced by the sport that defined him. Aaron Hernandez, who had Stage 3 CTE at twenty-seven. The Science. - What tau protein is, how it kills neurons, why the subconcussive hit matters more than the concussion, what the Boston University CTE Center has found in 345 of 376 donated former NFL player brains, and what we still don't know. The Reckoning. - The 2009 Congressional hearing ("The NFL sort of reminds me of the tobacco companies"). The billion-dollar settlement. Rule changes and their limits. Five million children playing youth football. The three possible futures for the game. The price of the game is borne by the people who play it. This is the price.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- T. Scott
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 62