players like linebacker Junior Seau and quarterback Ken Stabler were inducted posthumously into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Pro Football Hall of Fame initially did not allow Seau’s daughter to speak at his induction ceremony in 2015; his 2012 death — a suicide — and a subsequent lawsuit against the N.F.L. But I think this is more of a celebration.”Though hockey players’ brains have not been studied as much as football players’, several hockey players have been found to have had C.T.E. PhotoKariya, 43, said his thoughts on concussions did not need to be reiterated in his Hall of Fame speech. “I’ve spoken about it since my first concussion back in 1997,” he said Friday after receiving his Hall of Fame ring.

Source: New York Times November 13, 2017 06:56 UTC