AUSTIN -- On the University of Texas stage, a former Longhorns basketball star and son of an old Houston Oiler pressed a neurologist about whether science can say for sure what football did to men such as his father. Lance Blanks probably didn’t get the answer he wanted. At least he’s asking.
Which was the point of Thursday’s McGarr Symposium on Sports and Society event, “Head Trauma and the Future of Football.”
Because let’s face it, we need to talk.
Consider the testimony this week of the Patriots’ Devin McCourty in Atlanta. Asked about football’s risks, he said, “I’m not worried.