Even Warren Sapp is concerned about the game of football. The Hall of Fame defensive tackle wrote on The Players’ Tribune that he’ll be donating his brain to concussion research after his death, noting that he’s already started to feel the effects of the hits he took in his career.
I’ve also started to feel the effects of the hits that I took in my career. My memory ain’t what it used to be. And yeah, it’s scary to think that my brain could be deteriorating, and that maybe things like forgetting a grocery list, or how to get to a friend’s house I’ve been to a thousand times are just the tip of the iceberg.