Why most NFL players are conservative

Rightardia comment: We saw another study that indicated most of the NFL political contributions went to the Republican Party. There appear to be some cognitive reasons for this in the story below. Rightardia has never been a fan of football because of the brutality. Most of our staff are soccer fans. 

Retired National Football League players experience an extremely high rate of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia according to a NFL study. 

Former players ages 30 through 49 had memory-related diseases 19 times higher than the rate in the US population. The study also found that 6.1 percent of former NFL players 50 and over had been diagnosed with a form of dementia, a rate five times higher than the national average. 

Experts had long suspected that cognitive decline was more prevalent among former football players. The study’s results could effect high school and college sports, where hundreds of concussions occur every week. Many young players are likely left undiagnosed and untreated.

The study was based on telephone interviews with 1,063 radomly selected players.  The palyer had to play at least three seasons to be surveyed. 

Families of players began to face financial ruin because of overwhelming medical bills related to dementia. Many families approached the NFL asking for financial assistance.

In 2007, Sylvia Mackey, wife of Hall of Famer John Mackey, wrote to the then-NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue for help. As a result, the 88 Plan (named after Mackey’s jersey number) was formed to care of former players who have the condition.

One study by Kevin Guskiewicz of the University of North Carolina found that retired NFL players who had three or more concussions during their career upped their chances 500 percent of suffering from mild cognitive impairment compared with others with no concussions.

And Bennet Omalu, a Pittsburgh doctor who performed autopsies on four former NFL players under the age of 50 made a startling discovery: All four brains showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a condition usually found either in boxers with dementia or in people in their 80s and 90s.

source: NewsMax

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