When you hear the powerful voice of Dr. Bennet Omalu speak, as he did last night at Boston College, you understand why the NFL wanted it stilled. That it has not been is a service to football players and their parents and also to what Omalu would call “our humanity.”
Dr. Omalu is the once unknown forensic pathologist who discovered CTE in the brain of someone he’d never heard of, the Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame center Mike Webster in September 2002. He stumbled upon this simply because things didn’t add up.
Webster died from a heart attack after having lived in a homeless and confused state for a number of years.