What will happen to former NFL player's brain?

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What will happen to former NFL player's brain?




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David Duerson's brain is being donated to the Boston University School
of Medicine to test for disease




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"If we aren't
talking about
making relatively
dramatic changes
to the game in a
public way...then
people are OK with
kids getting a
degenerative brain
disease from playing
football."


--Chris Nowinski, author, former football player

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