Another blow wears dealt to the #nfl as well as fans of one of the few entertaining sports on the planet, when a study was published in the medical journal JAMA that stated that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (a.k.a. #CTE) was discovered in 99 percent of the brains that dead NFL players donated to science. _______________________________ The JAMA study was the largest CTE study yet, and required all the examined brains to have had football as the No. 1 exposure to head trauma, regardless of whether the patients who donated said brains experienced any symptoms while they were still alive or not. 110 of the 111 NFL players brains examined showed CTE, including those of previous NFLers who had been publicly confirmed to have the condition, including #BubbaSmith and #KenStabler. ________________________________ It was also shown to be a risk in the amateur ranks, as it was found in 48 of 53 college players, and 3 of 14 high school players. “The medical and scientific communities will benefit from this publication and the NFL will continue to work with a wide range of experts to improve the health of current and former NFL athletes,” the league told CNN in a statement they’ve probably had prepped for awhile. “There are still many unanswered questions relating to the cause, incidence and prevalence of long-term effects of head trauma such as CTE.”Last year, for the first time, the NFL confirmed a link between their brand of football and CTE. The year before, a federal judge approved a class action settlement between the league and their former players that would pony up up to $5 million for any retired player that had a serious condition associated with consistent head trauma.