The plot continues to thicken...

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is the name researchers have given to the pathological changes associated with repeated blows to the head, e.g. those from playing in the National Football League.  In the news today are the results of a post-mortem analysis of 26 year-old Chris Henry's brain.  Henry, who died in what was deemed an accident -- falling out of a moving pick-up truck during a domestic dispute, was said to have the tangles and plaques deemed pathognomonic for CTE.  At some point, the NFL will properly explore this and more fully fund research into it.  Until then, the Super Bowls and Sunday NFL marathons will continue.  You know, the band kept playing on the Titanic too.

[Also, I'd be curious as to what the brains of other football (a.k.a. "soccer") players look like.  "Headers" don't seem like benign meetings of the cranium and ball to me...something my mother worried mightily about when my sisters and I used to play organized soccer in our youth.]