joining me now is former denver broncos tight end and author of slow getting up, nate jackson. nate, always great to see you. as the president sort of suggested today, it s hard to admit and sometimes you just don t know when you re injured. and in sports, it feels like admitting injury is admitting weakness. how do we begin to change that? i don t know if you can change it. it kind of comes from the top down, when we watch games on tv, the nfl, it s all about being tough. we have analysts who are talking about toughness, who are talking about the will to win and that trickles down, you know. all these kids are watching it on tv, and so there is an institutional incentive to keep these symptoms to yourself. and until we reduce the importance of football in our culture, i think kids and adults will continue to conceal those symptoms. when you were playing when you were playing pro football, if you were injured and you were in the locker room, did you guys talk about it? did you
and dance back there. gets away from everybody and finally does throw. what s the difference between you and some of these guys who have dementia at age 50? i have two concussions. and lucky for me i went back in the game after the concussions and if you do that and you have another concussion you are in big trouble. we didn t have protocol back then. and now, you know, if someone is con cussed, they take him off the field they don t put him in for the rest of that game or other games because they want to get that to heal back up before they put him back in. you believe it s just luck you believe your physiology was able to deserve the puvmentd that you took. do you have now at age 73 any mall ladies that you attribute to playing pro-football. i have got an artificial right shoulder and i have got about 150 stitches on it. but every football player does. but i played for 18 years. i missed five games because of injury. i got my leg broken when i was in the pocket. running aroun
gets away from everybody and finally does throw. what s the difference between you and some of these guys who have dementia at age 50? i have two concussions. and lucky for me i went back in the game after the concussions and if you do that and you have another concussion you are in big trouble. we didn t have protocol back then. and now, you know, if someone is con cussed, they take him off the field they don t put him in for the rest of that game or other games because they want to get that to heal back up before they put him back in. you believe it s just luck you believe your physiology was able to deserve the puvmentd that you took. do you have now at age 73 any mall ladies that you attribute to playing pro-football. i have got an artificial right shoulder and i have got about 150 stitches on it. but every football player does. but i played for 18 years. i missed five games because of injury. i got my leg broken when i was in the pocket. running around so much didn t bothe
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