The late former Eagles running back Kevin Turner's years-long battle with chronic traumatic encephalopathy is the subject of a feature on this week's episode of HBO's "Real Sports."
You might think that Turner's brain damage, which evidence showed was tied to playing football, would have compelled his parents to turn away from the sport that made their son famous. As the New York Times' Juliet Macur wrote Sunday, it has not. In fact, it has not at all.
As Myra Turner watched the Dallas Cowboys play the Packers last weekend, she saw a TV camera stop on the former Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith, who was celebrating and grabbing his seatmate, Tony Dorsett, another Cowboys alumnus.