Add Kenny Stabler to the growing list of NFL players to suffer brain damage. The New York Times reported today that Stabler had severe C.T.E, the degenerative brain disease believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head.
The story details Stabler’s cognitive decline before he died of cancer last year.
Here are a couple blurbs:
“There were days when I walked in the door and looked at his face, and I could tell,” Bush said. “He was sitting in his chair, because he was always waiting for me, and the news was on and whatnot, and he had his head laid back, and his eyes just scrunched up so tight that I used to think that would give you a headache in itself, just the pure pressure of squinting like that.