The Will Smith film “Concussion” opening in theaters on Christmas Day will focus attention on one of the darkest sides of sport — in this case football, but the issue is far beyond just the subject sport — and the question of brain trauma and its consequences. If some of the attention may cause the NFL and other sports to squirm because of how they have or haven’t dealt with the threat, Bears Chairman George McCaskey isn’t afraid of the overall impact and in fact finds a potential major positive in something with well-known tragedies in its wake.
“The important part, I think, is that any attention on player health and safety is a good thing,” McCaskey said Friday.