In December 2011, while he was the starting quarterback at Penn State, Matt McGloin got into a locker-room fight after practice with one of his teammates, wide receiver Curtis Drake. The circumstances that precipitated the fight aren’t material here. The result is. During the brawl, McGloin’s head slammed against the floor. He suffered a concussion and underwent a seizure, spending the rest of that afternoon at Mount Nittany Medical Center and missing Penn State’s next game. “That’s kind of really the only bad concussion I’ve had, thank God,” he said.
Bad concussion. One game.
McGloin and the Eagles had just finished practice late Tuesday morning, on the team’s second day of training camp, when Boston University released the findings of a study that reaffirmed the dangers of McGloin’s chosen profession.