NEWSCASTER: The NFL changes its playbook, NEWSCASTER: New rules for treating athletes with concussions, NEWSCASTER: NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wants all teams to adhere to a new policy for head injuries. CHRIS NOWINSKI: What motivated me every day was the fact that my head was killing me. He moved to Lodi, California. The problem is it's a journalist issue. You know, there are other issues that we've got to look at. And getting in that room with a bunch of males who already thought they knew all the answers more sexism. CHRIS NOWINSKI, Co-Director, BU CTE Center: I remember at one point, one of the NFL doctors asking, you know, "Couldn't you be misdiagnosing this? Jeff Seamon on it. If 10% of mothers in this country would begin to perceive football as a dangerous sport, that is the end of football. Maybe 10 minutes passed, and he looked at me with the same puzzled expression and asked the same sequence of questions. FAITH HILL: [singing] The whole world's ready, kick that ball off the tee because it's Super Bowl rocks on NBC. We strong we strongly deny those allegations that we withheld any information or misled the players. The stakes for the NFL are obvious. How Afraid Should the NFL be of Chris Borland? ROGER GOODELL: Well, some said that we could not top last year's Super Bowl, but the Steelers and Cardinals did that tonight! Then instead of the NFL, he became a professional wrestler.. MARK FAINARU-WADA: He ends up with the nickname Chris Harvard, the persona of this sort of snobbish wrestler who's smarter than all the fans. And she didn't drop a beat and said, "Are you kidding!" Dr. ANN McKEE: And he wanted me to come to the NFL office and present the data. All this security is gone. Our bills are all overdue. It was pretty obvious, actually, the first interview that he had some type of cognitive impairment. And I remember thinking, "Why is Ira Casson calling me?". PETER KEATING, Reporter, ESPN: The league officials, the doctors and scientists serving on the MTBI committee, not only disputed those findings, they went after Dr. Omalu with a vengeance. ANNOUNCER: Let's give him a big round of applause! NARRATOR: And buried in the documents, a stunning admission by the league's board football can cause brain disease. NARRATOR: The league had its own doctor review Webster's case. And so you knew that this was going to be big. And he said, "Well, who did we play?" But no, you're not coming.". And I remember the technician telling me, he said, "What are you fixing this brain for? And when I hit him in the face, his head is going back. Steve Fainaru Dr. ANN McKEE: There were NFL players out there that were talking to their wives and saying, "I think this might be something." But we didn't really relate that in a modern sport like football, in a helmeted sport, that it could lead to that. I'm just tired and confused right now, that's why I say I can't really I can't say it the way I want to say it. So I get it. LEIGH STEINBERG: For a minute, I thought he was joking. NARRATOR: Dr. Robert Cantu edited the journal's sports medicine section. STEVE FAINARU, FRONTLINE/ESPN: And so you had this behind the scenes, you know, this dynamic going on where you had a guy, Elliot Pellman, who very clearly believed that this wasn't a problem, it just wasn't a big problem for the NFL. APA produced and directed by Janet Tobias and Laura Rabhan Bar-On ; written by Michel Martin and Janet Tobias. JULIAN BAILES, M.D., Team Neurosurgeon, Steelers, 1988-97: For the most part, people didn't want to believe it's true. NARRATOR: Outside the conference's closed doors, the new commissioner insisted that the NFL had the problem under control. "Yes, you played well." ELEANOR PERFETTO, Wife of Ralph Wenzel: As the disease progressed, he went from being ill but fairly functional to getting to the point where he could no longer, you know, dress or feed himself. CHRIS NOWINSKI: And then, seemingly out of nowhere, he decided to take his own life. Mike Wiser. NARRATOR: As the news broke, the question emerged did CTE play a part in Junior Seau's death? And with that head, he'd pop you. APA citation style refers to the rules and conventions established by the American Psychological Association for documenting sources used in a research paper. NARRATOR: For years, Pellman's committee would insist they were studying the problem, that the danger from concussions was overblown. NARRATOR: The inspiration for the movie sports agent Jerry Maguire, Steinberg was a powerhouse alongside the new NFL. NARRATOR: Also on the panel, Nowinski's other star, Lisa McHale. NARRATOR: A doctor, Omalu was also a trained neuropathologist. So no, they're definitely different diseases." : Getting it into the hands of good science is their the goal there. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. STEVE FAINARU, FRONTLINE/ESPN: The level of denial was just profound. NARRATOR: Brain trauma became an obsession. Answered over 90d ago. NARRATOR: Nearly broke, homeless and losing his mind, Webster decided football had hurt him, and the NFL was going to pay for it. CHRIS HARVARD: You people should be grateful to have someone of my intelligence in your presence! And he said, "What's going on?" It really was a turning point. LEIGH STEINBERG: I went to visit Troy, who was sitting in a darkened hospital room all alone. The FRONTLINE Interview: Dr. Bennet Omalu - League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis - FRONTLINE . Stand by all cameras. It was a scientific first. NARRATOR: Besides Mike Webster and Terry Long, Omalu also found CTE in the brains of Andre Waters and Justin Strzelczyk. I thought that she presented herself, as I recall it's been several years that there was something something in her manner. I'm sure he would. NARRATOR: In the months following Seau's death, the NFL went on the offensive. Steve Fainaru & Mark Fainaru-Wada. JEANNE MARIE LASKAS, GQ, "Game Brain": He ran the same test, same stains, found the same splotches, CTE in his brain, too. He's truly a legend, and he will be with us forever. It was a hard message, a difficult message, a bad message, but it appeared to be true. NARRATOR: Long was an offensive lineman with the Steelers for eight years. Dr. BENNET OMALU: I assisted at the autopsy. There was a very severe hazard that was present in professional football, and it was a little secret. NARRATOR: She'd spent years trying to get help from the NFL and its players association. And he could get up there with his short sleeves. Dr. MICKEY COLLINS, Univ. Dr. ANN McKEE: 8, 10, 12? FAITH HILL, Entertainer: [singing] All right, what a night, it's finally here. And I said, "My God, of course. Dr. HENRY FEUER: If we for some reason coming came across as being disrespectful, then I would say that everybody else we interviewed over the 15 years must have felt the same way. NARRATOR: McKee and colleagues from Boston University were determined to examine as many brains as they could, and this man knew how to get them. Dr. BENNET OMALU: If you read, Pellman made statements like what I practice is not medicine, it's not science. That just shouldn't happen. It's not for anyone else." He said, "But I haven't slept nothing." Reporter James Edwards seeks answers to these questions, reflecting on his own familys experiences along the way. NARRATOR: Dr. Casson declined to be interviewed by FRONTLINE. Frontline : Juvenile Justice. pbs frontline special league of denial apa citation. MARK FAINARU-WADA: The NFL convenes a summit in the summer of 2007. I'll bring them to you. MEGAN NODERER: I can't tell, ma'am. he worries he has it. NARRATOR: Nowinski's press conference was no match for the show the NFL was putting on across town. They were in the middle of a major damage control operation. TYLER SEAU: People started saying things about Omalu, kind of telling me the kind of character that he has. ST. LOUIS - On January 5, the winner of a $50,000 scratch-off ticket bought in Charleston, Missouri, went to the St. Louis Regional Office to claim the prize. That's the sacrifice that you take to play this game. People didn't notice. December 22, PAUL TAGLIABUE, NFL Commissioner: [Sports panel discussion, December 1994] Concussions I think is, you know, one of these pack journalism issues, frankly. And Ann said, "Well, actually, I was on the NIH committee that defined how you diagnose that disease. 911 OPERATOR: What is your boyfriend's name? NEWSCASTER: The untimely death of Junior Seau is provoking questions. Here we have a 21-year-old who was a hard-hitting lineman from the age of 9 on. JULIAN BAILES, M.D., Team Neurosurgeon, Steelers 1988-97: He saw collections of tau protein, collections which shouldn't be there in someone of Mike Webster's age. Use these letters in both in-text citations and the Reference list. Year after year after year, at crisis after crisis after crisis, the concussions committee and its members assured the public that the league was looking into this. In 1997, he went to see a lawyer. And so the image of the situation to most fans is that the NFL got taken to task for the concussion problem, OK? DIRECTED BY. Included with PBS Documentaries on Amazon for $3.99/month after trial. NARRATOR: Steve Fainaru and his brother, Mark Fainaru-Wada, are investigative reporters. The head of the Disability Committee is the commissioner himself, so it's very much a creature of the NFL. He didn't know what was going on. August 22, Aaron Hernandez Found To Have Had "Severe" Case of CTE, NFL Acknowledges a Link Between Football, CTE, What the NFL's New Concussion Numbers Don't Answer. NARRATOR: In Pittsburgh at just about this time, Mike Webster's brain tissue was being examined. ART ROONEY II, Pittsburgh Steelers President and Co-Owner: He had the violence in him. NEWSCASTER: and violent, off-the-field incidents. And you know, her husband, suffering, you know, from dementia, obviously can't be represented there by anybody but her. And so Webster would duct tape his feet, as well, to sort of close those cracks and keep them and keep them together. Dr. Pellman is not a neurosurgeon. I mean, what have I done? She says, "This is a crisis, and anybody who doesn't believe it is in denial.". The league donated $30 million dollars to the NIH to study sports injuries, including joint disease, chronic pain and CTE. With Will Lyman, Harry Carson, Steve Fainaru, Beth Wilkinson. And it just floored me. I look at brains. They're now denying their own study. I don't know." How many brain traumas do you need to get this? When you have force against force, you're going to have injuries. ", CHRIS NOWINSKI, Co-Director, BU CTE Center: I spent time making calls. NARRATOR: They insisted the league had done nothing wrong. "Frontline" League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis (TV Episode 2013) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. It's still being debated. Franco Harris is down to 30, big pileup. Dr. BENNET OMALU: That was what I thought, in my naive state of mind. I mean, he just walks out of the room, and he takes his empty brain briefcase and he gets back on the plane, and he goes back to San Francisco without having any success. It says you guys are now the NFL's "preferred" brain bank and that the league will help with efforts to direct families to donate the brains of former players to Boston so that they will be studied for CTE. DOCUMENT: "that there is inadequate clinical evidence that the subject had a chronic neurological condition". And Omalu's response was, "Who's Mike Webster? Nearly four in five football players examined by one of the nation's leading brain banks tested positive for the disease now at the center of the debate over concussions in football. You know, he's going to hurt me. MARK FAINARU-WADA: And that was a dramatic admission back in 2000. We'd like you to participate. In a midtown Manhattan restaurant, an internal NFL research document was leaked to a reporter. Voodoo! No.". And I said, "The 49ers." ANNOUNCER: You see it right here. And the medical experts should be the one to be able to continue that debate. I'm just going to show them what I have. You know that that brain is supposed to be pristine. "Concussion Watch" tries to answer these questions by tracking every officially reported head injury in the NFL. But the NFL is under assault as thousands of former players claim the league has covered up footballs connection to long-term brain injuries. I feel very privileged that someone has trusted me with this duty. He looked beat up. The threat was that the league was going to have to pay out in the billions with a B, not millions with an M. NARRATOR: About one third of NFL veterans, including some of the biggest former stars, claimed the NFL had fraudulently concealed the danger to their brains. I didn't want to admit it to myself, either. To lead it, he chose Elliot Pellman, the New York Jets team doctor, a firm believer that concussions were not a serious problem. PETER KEATING: The threat to the NFL from this litigation was existential. Rep. LINDA SANCHEZ (D), California: The NFL sort of reminds me of the tobacco companies pre-'90s, when they kept saying, "No, there's no link between smoking and damage to your health or ill health effects.". NEWSCASTER: The NFL is committed to medical and scientific research. Watch Frontline: League Of Denial: The Nfl's Concussion Crisis (Trailer 1). In-text: (The FRONTLINE Interview: Dr. Bennet Omalu - League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis - FRONTLINE, 2015) Your Bibliography: FRONTLINE. NARRATOR: Then one of the most watched television broadcasts in history, a 30-second ad sold for $3 million. PETER KEATING, Reporter, ESPN: The closer you look, the less this holds up. HARRY CARSON, Author, Captain For Life: These players come down with dementia. His claim for disability was filed with the National Football League's retirement board. The number is relatively small. STEVE FAINARU: The NFL is broadcast over five networks. HARRY CARSON: You know, most people are keyed in on the big hit. So I think we should be treating youths differently. warning We need to figure those things out. I think that really was how he felt because he really was. STEVE FAINARU: You have the commissioner of the NFL who's being hauled before Congress to answer why his own research arm has been denying since 1994 that football causes brain damage, when everybody from The New York Times to former NFL players, to the respected research scientists are saying, in fact, the opposite is true. And I said, "But my player my husband is a player who's severely disabled, and he can't be here right now.". I was scared. At some point, he interrupted me again, "Bennet, do you think you know the implications of what you're doing?" He was a leader on the team. She showed up uninvited to a league meeting about caring for retired players. MICHAEL ORIARD, Center, Kansas City Chiefs, 1970-73: The way the game is played, I don't see how you can eliminate all of those routine hits that linemen make every play. Dr. JULIAN BAILES: There was skepticism. So everything's crumbling. Michael Kirk. He gave us verbal consent. ALAN SCHWARZ, The New York Times: The cover says, "What is a concussion," question mark. NEWSCASTER: Terry Long killed himself by drinking anti-freeze. PETER KEATING, Reporter, ESPN: It sure looks like it was just a relentless and endless delaying action. NEWSCASTER: He died on Tuesday. Dr. BENNET OMALU: I came to work one morning and everybody there said, "Hey, we have another case for you." He's going forward, but all of a sudden, his head is going back and his brain is hitting up against the inside of his skull. They insinuated I was not practicing medicine, I was practicing voodoo. BENNET OMALU, M.D., Medical Examiner: I put the slides in and looked. DOCUMENT: "indicate that his disability is the result of head injuries he suffered as a football player.". Jim Gilmore. STEVE FAINARU: The room is dark because Aikman can't even stand looking into the light. This is still not something that we're buying into.". The league actually never got around to looking at it in any kind of valid way. That's, like, the budget of a Harry Potter movie every week, week in, week out. NARRATOR: Omalu submitted another paper to Neurosurgery, this one about Terry Long. DOCUMENT: "These statements are based on a complete misunderstanding of the relevant medical literature.". . CHRIS NOWINSKI: As long as the NFL dismissed this, that meant that parents were signing their kids up to go play football, believing that there was no risk. You know, "I'm experiencing some problems. home > Latest News > pbs frontline special league of denial apa citation. HARRY CARSON, Author, Captain For Life: I think everyone now has a better sense of what damage you can get from playing football. I could answer this real easy at other times, but right now, I'm just tired. He died.". Nearly half the members were team doctors. January 28, The book chronicles the National Football League's concussion crisis, which came to light with a few career-ending head injuries in the 1990s and became an even more serious issue as numerous deceased former players were found to have . Each time that happens, it's around 20G or more. ANNOUNCER: Tonight on FRONTLINE, the epic story of football's concussion crisis. CTE has dragged me into the politics of science, the politics of the NFL. January 20, It said, you know, "If I get a concussion, am I further at risk for long-term problems?" NARRATOR: Tom and Lisa McHale had three sons. NEWSCASTER: His behavior changed dramatically. UNV 504 Week 2 APA Activity 2: Citing Practice. NARRATOR: The commissioner arrived like a celebrity, the star attraction at the hearing and the focus of all the cameras. NARRATOR: In the early 1990s, Steinberg represented one of football's top stars, Dallas quarterback Troy Aikman. NARRATOR: Then in New York, a change in the NFL's top leadership. The NFL knew it, but the players certainly didn't know it. Do you now acknowledge that there is a link between the game and these concussions that people have been getting, some of these brain injuries? Dr. ANN McKEE: Those sub-concussive hits, those hits that don't even rise to the level of what we call a concussion, or symptoms, just playing the game can be dangerous. pbs frontline special league of denial apa citation. If I had not been told his age, I would say he looked like 70. Michael Kirk & Mike Wiser NARRATOR: The NFL retirement board had no choice. CHRIS NOWINSKI: And I said, "There's something really wrong with me." And prevalence how many players had it. Now, that kind of statement don't make news if anybody else says it. NARRATOR: And if there was one iconic Steeler, it was number 52, "Iron Mike" Webster. You may use your text or the OWL. This was not something that I made up. BROADCAST DIRECTOR: 15 seconds to air. STAN SAVRAN: They loved that hard-hitting, punishing, brutal defense that they played. He was angrier quicker than before, and didn't have the patience to have, you know, the kids on his lap or take a walk with the kids. CHRIS NOWINSKI: We head on up to a very, very fancy conference room, nice wood paneling, jerseys and trophies in the glass. And the medical examiner requested that I come down they've never had such a big case before, I'm an expert in this field to help him. Note: These citations are software generated and may contain errors. NARRATOR: At Harvard, Nowinski was a punishing tackler. We would just we would listen, and "Thank you," and that's it. I believe in empirically determined, scientifically valid data. And he says, "No. NARRATOR: Dr. Omalu believed he saw physical evidence of the long-term damage playing football could have on the brain. LEIGH STEINBERG: The actual logo of Monday Night Football showed helmets hitting together. FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. 2015. MARK FAINARU-WADA: She's learned a little bit about the work that had previously been done in this issue by Omalu and others, and she's eager to find some brains. October 8, MARK FAINARU-WADA: I think in the simplest form, one major piece of our reporting just revolves around the simple question of what did the NFL know and when did it know it? ROBERT STERN: For some reason, the repetitive brain trauma starts this cascade of events in the brain that changes the way this tau looks and behaves. He was not an expert in neurology and had no background in brain research. Refer to the guidelines for writing an effective summary presented in the Lecture 2 as a guide. ANNOUNCER: Another nice play by Owen Thomas. NARRATOR: Harry Carson has been studying the matter since he retired 25 years ago. Last Tuesday PBS Frontline premiered League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis, a damning investigation of the National Football League's efforts to suppress and discredit mounting evidence that the head trauma professional football players routinely endure poses grave health risks. WRITTEN BY. HARRY CARSON: From a physical risk standpoint, you know what you are doing when you sign your kid up, that he can hurt his knee, OK? It became sort of like his little private mission. STEVE FAINARU: Congress saw it as a way to put the NFL's concussion policies on trial in the court of public opinion. NEWSCASTER: From now on, teams should consider a concussion a game-ending injury. NARRATOR: Because he'd never had a diagnosed concussion, Dr. McKee suspected Thomas might have gotten CTE from the everyday sub-concussive hits that are an inherent part of the game. ROBERT STERN: That was the shocking part. And I had people who I loved and cared for. During this whole run of research that's being published, the day of reckoning, where the league has to answer to somebody about what it's doing about concussions, just keeps getting pushed off and pushed off and pushed off. There must be really important variables, genetics, things about the type of exposure to brain trauma people get. JANE LEAVY, Author, The Woman Who Would Save Football: I don't think anyone else but the wives, sisters, mothers, daughters, and Ann McKee, could have forced this issue into American consciousness. NARRATOR: Then one day, she received a phone call from the Boston University medical school. MARK FAINARU-WADA: The NFL very directly worked not only to get the brain to NIH, but in this case, to keep it away from Omalu's group or McKee's group by speaking badly about them. NARRATOR: Almost two decades after the NFL founded its first scientific committee to research the issue, the league continues to insist the evidence of a link between CTE and football is unclear. pbs frontline special league of denial apa citationgarberiel battery charger manual 26th February 2023 / in what's happening in silsbee, tx today / by / in what's happening in silsbee, tx today / by MARK FAINARU-WADA: He like Webster, his life had sort of fallen apart in a lot of ways. He telephoned Seau's son, Tyler, to get consent to take his father's brain. And there was clearly among the NFL committee, there was just a very steadfast belief that this is not a problem. I mean, we're going to present her findings. Sammy White, he did a remarkable catch with Skip Thomas and Jack Tatum jackknifing him as he caught the ball for a first down on the Oakland 45-yard line. MIKE ORIARD: The sense of football as something powerful and elemental and mythic and epic. . NARRATOR: In September of 2006, Commissioner Paul Tagliabue stepped down. ANNOUNCER: Down he goes! JANE LEAVY, Journalist: The change was so diabolical. And he said, "I used to be." I just feel that, I guess, the more cases we get, the more we persevere, the more they hear, eventually, they'll change their mind. It wasn't a supposition. STEVE FAINARU: You know, putting a rheumatologist on the head of the committee that arguably was going to have more influence over brain research, you know, than any other any particular institution in the country at the time, you know, was, I think a lot of people felt, surprising. Now, Borland is known as the most dangerous man in football, a powerful voice in the NFL's concussion crisis. This is information that I would have like to have had.". But he literally slid it across the table in an envelope. JULIAN BAILES, M.D., Team Neurosurgeon, Steelers, 1988-97: Certainly, we knew that if you got hit on the head so many times, maybe you had a 20 percent chance of having dementia pugilistica if you were a former professional boxer. January 20, He offered to present Omalu's work to the group. Sexism is part of my life. DOCUMENT: "We therefore urge the authors to retract their paper". NARRATOR: In 1994, during the NFC championship, Aikman took a knee to the head. You've got the very real question being asked of whether the nature of playing the sport exposes you to brain damage and lots of science that suggests that it can. CEL 2103. I was, like, floored. The FRONTLINE investigation details how, for years, the league denied and worked to refute scientific evidence that the violent collisions at the heart of the game are linked to an alarming incidence of early onset dementia, catastrophic brain damage, and other devastating consequences for some of footballs all-time greats. But the other piece of it is that the NFL wants to come off as being very forward-looking. And she's told she's not allowed to enter the room. NFL NARRATOR: When you talk about big-hitting safeties, the Eagles Donnie Dawkins always emerges. NARRATOR: And Dr. Omalu received his brain. I'm, like, "Wow! NARRATOR: For Nowinski, the issue of CTE is personal. NEWSCASTER: Terry Long committed suicide by drinking anti-freeze. There's "The science is still emerging and we're really going to try and do long-term studies on this. It was happening to every player in every collision sport. Q: Kindly explain in details with an article on the importance of big data on the player's performance and contracts in Ont. But from a neurological standpoint, you're going to have you're going to have some brain trauma. ROBERT CANTU, M.D., Neurosurgeon, Boston University: If you're going to put together a blue ribbon committee to study brain trauma, it should have as its chair somebody who has that as a background, either a neurologist, neurosurgeon, neuropathologist, preferably a clinician. NARRATOR: That May, McKee and Nowinski arrived at NFL headquarters. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. Grand Canyon University. When you are citing two different sources that share the same author and year of publication, assign lowercase letters after the year of publication (a, b, c, etc.). But I'm not out there crying about it. 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