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Dan Le Batard: Jason Taylor’s pain shows NFL’s world of hurt - Dan Le Batard - MiamiHerald.com

Scary to read.

patriotsdynasty12189

Makes Barry Sanders look like a genius getting out while you still can.

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Bella*chick

One of the scariest articles I've read yet. And not a single word about concussions or the state of Taylor's brain. It was scary as hell WITHOUT THAT.

I don't know, dude. I just don't. And he says he'd do it all again. The game is an addiction.

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ctpatsfan77

Hell, even Brady's talked about peeing out blood on Monday mornings.

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chasa

sure hope he can manage to survive the rest of his life on the millions of dollars he made while he played.

betterthanthealternative

Given what's in that article, he can have it. I've no envy or desire to trade places.

weswelker#83

Many players died in their mid 50's, i always check the age, when i read the news that an Ex-football player just passed away (usually a small box inside the paper, not in the first page), and i agree with your statement.

LivinLovin&Breathin_Brady

Scary, but not at all surprising to me. I watched Any Given Sunday, they did some homework and kinda got a clue to how those players did anything to play the game. Which brings me back to the CTE cases, yeah there's plenty of concussions, but we're talking about players playing on drugs, likely living on top-notch pain killers throughout the season just to get through the day, probably abusing street drugs when they can't get it from the personal doc or the team doctor anymore. Abusing alcohol, who knows what else they do in their top dollar lifestyles. Combine head injuries and drug abuse and sure some 30 old's brain would look like that of a 120 year old's. There's nothing fixing helmets and softening up the game can do about that.

CTE didn't kill Seau. Depression killed him. Drinking, unemployment and undisclosed pain from previous injuries and a desire to escape from it all is what killed him, unfortunately.

fnordcircle

Everytime someone posts about how the league is being pussified they should read an article like this.

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Drewwho

The average life expectancy of an retired NFL players is 58. This game is NO JOKE!

Article from May 2012
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...8483/index.htm