By Julia Rivera, Columnist
Over 10 years ago, Dr. Bennet Omalu published his findings in the correlation between football players and brain damage in the journal Neurosurgery. The movie Concussion starring Will Smith tells this story.
The NFL did not publicly acknowledge the link between football-related concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) until December 2009, seven years after Omalu’s discovery.
Though the NFL has taken a while to respond to the findings, over the past several years the league has instituted more than two dozen safety-related rules, including the Head Health Initiative.