Corboy & Demetrio Client Mike Adamle Speaks in Support of Dave Duerson Act to Prevent CTE скачать в хорошем качестве

Corboy & Demetrio Client Mike Adamle Speaks in Support of Dave Duerson Act to Prevent CTE

Former NFL Player and Sports Broadcaster Mike Adamle Speaks at Dave Duerson Act News Conference Corboy & Demetrio client Mike Adamle, a former NFL player and Chicago sports broadcaster who suffers symptoms of CTE, spoke at a Jan. 25, 2018 news conference in Chicago announcing the Dave Duerson Act to Prevent CTE. The proposed Illinois legislation was introduced by State Rep. Carole Sente, D-Vernon Hills, who made the announcement at the news conference. The Act would ban tackle football for children under 12 in Illinois in order to better protect them from repeated head blows that could result in brain injury, including concussions and CTE. Two other Corboy & Demetrio clients, Liz Nicholson, wife of former Cleveland Brown Gerry Sullivan and Tregg Duerson, son of the late Chicago Bear Dave Duerson also spoke. Boston University’s Chris Nowinski, CEO of Concussion Legacy Foundation, which studies brains of athletes after death to determine whether they suffered from CTE, spoke as well. The Foundation has teamed up with Mike Adamle for The Mike Adamle Project: Rise Above, which will provide resources and support for survivors of CTE. Corboy & Demetrio Co-founder Thomas Demetrio and Partner William T. Gibbs represent more than 100 retired football players and families of deceased players in concussion litigation against the NFL. Transcript of Mike Adamle’ s comments at the news conference: It was tough for me because I grew up in a football family. My dad was an all-pro linebacker for the Cleveland Browns, in 19… you know, from 1950 through ‘56, and he did not, he lives in the age when there were no face masks. He had a guy named Jim Brown, Paul Brown, who was a legendary football coach, invented the helmet and the face mask which was, you know, a big thing back then. My dad did not let me play though. He did not let me play until the ninth grade, and because he knew, he knew that this was something that happened to young men, especially if you weren’t prepared for it. I was the starting guard for Kent Roosevelt High School and I weighed a whopping 125 pounds. I had a helmet that it would go like this [HAND GESTURE ACROSS FOREHEAD] you’d spin it around. We call them brain buckets [LAUGHTER]. This is the other thing, that being this size, I had the guys like him [HE POINTS TO OTIS WILSON] tackling me. But it was fun, it was great. I had to prove, the little guy has to prove he can play. The big guy has to prove he can’t. So all that knowledge that we’ve, you know, it makes it very, very hard. But I want to do everything that I can. It’s going to eventually kill me, I don’t know when. But I found out there’s some things that you can do to abate the decline that happens in all of us. And so that’s what I’m trying to do. If it takes, you know, having my brain found out in some place in Boston, I’m all for that. So, anyway, let’s, I don’t know, pray that something gets done.