“The only way we will truly understand the long-term effects of repetitive head trauma in football is to study a large group of athletes throughout their lives and then examine their brains following death,” said Dr. Robert Stern, a co-director of the Center [for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy]. Clearly, the man has never sat through an Emmitt Smith broadcast.

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