The Snake and CTE

The news isn't surprising but it must be haunting to learn that Ken Stabler had stage 3 CTE. Stabler's status highlights some key lessons about football and brain trauma. The more you play, the more likely and more severe the damage. No position is immune from the scourge - even QBs. And the fact that they're finding it in players from the days of yore - before the speed, size and hits of the game truly amped up in the 90s and 00s - should be terrifying for the health prospects for players in that more recent era.

And I also wonder what Stabler's liver looked like!