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Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

- Bennet Omalu
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Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted principle of medicine. That is why I was so appalled by the NFL doctors who were denying my work.

I grew up in Africa, in Nigeria. I never knew, I never had any reasonable encounter with football. I saw football on Sky News. I thought there were people dressed like extraterrestrials, you know, like they were going to Mars or something, headgears and shoulder pads. And I wondered why, as a child, why did they have to dress that way.

There is no safe blow to the head, especially for a child.

Trust in the great American ingenuity. We can derive more intelligent, more brain-friendly ways we can play football.

What I did when I identified Mike Webster's thing, I showed it to other doctors. We all agreed that this was something new, but we had to give it a name. This was not dementia pugilistica. Maybe we could have called it dementia footballitica!

A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.

Will Smith's acting reaffirms my belief in the American perfection.

As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?

My son is 6. I wouldn't let my six-year-old son near any football field. And if any coach asks my son to play football, I'll sue that coach, and I'll sue the school.

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Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.