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How the NFL Worked to Hide the Truth about Concussions and Brain Damage [Excerpt]

The NFL not only publicly denied evidence that long-term brain damage could result from concussions suffered by its players, but worked to undercut it

Mar 7, 2014 |By Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru

Excerpted with permission from League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth, by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru. Available from Crown Archetype/Random House, LLC. Copyright © 2013.

September 28, 2002, is one of the most significant dates in the history of American sports. You won’t find it in the record books.

That morning, on a stainless steel autopsy table inside the Allegheny County coroner’s office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, lay the body of Mike Webster, the legendary center of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He had been stripped to his blue jeans, and his stomach had been injected with embalming fluid. Even in death, Webster looked formidable, with a muscular thickness from head to foot, a body that seemed designed to absorb and mete out punishment. But on closer inspection, it was a body that showed horrific signs of wear. Late in Webster’s life, his personal physician had noticed that the skin on his forehead had become “fixed to his scalp,” a shelf of scar tissue built up over 17 years of pro football. Odd bulges protruded from his back, varicose veins spidered down his legs, and deep cracks ran along the bottoms of his feet. His fingers were thick and crooked like splayed branches. Webster’s ex-wife, peering into his casket, had noticed that his fingers remained curled so that “it looked like he was still holding a football.” Webster was 50 years old when he died, but a lot of people thought he looked 70.

Five years earlier, when Webster was...
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