Looking back on all the years on the football field, she’s angry that nothing was ever said about the dangers. The NFL has in recent years begun to take CTE seriously, amending its rules and bequeathing the Bedford VA brain bank $1m to fund its research. “We were never educated about brain injuries,” Alicia says.

In Duerson’s heyday, she recalls, if a player took a knock, the coach would hold up two fingers and say “how many can you count?”, the player would say “three” and the coach would send them back on to the field.

“They treated it like a joke,” Alicia says. “But that wasn’t a joke.”

- The NFL star and the brain injuries that destroyed him, Guardian.co.uk, July 19, 2011.

About the author:

Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.

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