Found insideI HAVE HEARD and read with interest the Story of Benet Omalu; the Nigerian ... a famous NFL player, Mike Webster who was featured in the movie, “Concussion. Grieving teammates were, and they felt shaken by this glimpse of their own mortality. And to sleep. Omalu did not, unlike most 34-year-old men living in a place like Pittsburgh, have an appreciation for American football. In “Concussion,” Dr. Bennet Omalu, who discovered CTE, considered the center position as the most violent in terms of constant head-banging. Published: 09:51 AEST, 18 November 2020 | Updated: 20:11 AEST, 18 November 2020. Steve Young suffered from 7 diagnosed concussions during his NFL carreer. With the Steelers winning Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, and XIV, Webster and Terry Bradshaw form one of the most well-known center–quarterback pairs in history. ‘Until a claim is submitted you won’t have access or disclosure about the medical evidence that’s been considered and what records the clubs keep.’. By the end, the battle scars of ‘Iron’ Mike Webster ran from head to toe. It was 1997 when Webster decided to sue the NFL. "We just did what we were told and were taught," Feehery said. It doesn't depend on how many diagnosed concussions a person has, but concussions are obviously an issue. Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas | Summary & Analysis Preview: Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas chronicles the story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, a Nigerian-born forensic pathologist known for his seminal research on chronic traumatic ... But it took until 2019 for Dr Willie Stewart’s research to be done. The sudden death of Steelers great Mike Webster is fueling talk about medical worries that have troubled the sports world for years, from muscle building drugs to brain damaging concussions. Over and over again, in slow-motion, the clip was played again and again. But Webster refused his panicked son’s entreaties to go to a hospital, in part because he didn’t have insurance. The comments below have not been moderated. “Mike was a guy you could always count on.”, [pullquote] Year after year, Webster slammed into much bigger players, their helmets crashing into his like battering rams, their forearms pounding his head. Garrett was with his father when he went into a coma and then passed away on Tuesday: “I took it hard when they told me he was going to die. 2. ‘It may be that the damage was more serious 30 or 40 years ago. Webster’s finances remain a muddle, but from conversations with his family and lawyers, it appears he poured most of his savings into investments that went bad. How did Mike Webster’s personality and behavior change after … It was, 'How many fingers do I have up?' Webster had several million dollars in assets when he retired, so it shocked Pamela when their Victorian house was foreclosed 18 months after he left football. [9] Nonetheless, Webster continued to disappear for weeks at a time without explanation and without contact with friends and family. Webster was cremated and his ashes were returned to his wife and their four children. [2] His doctors were of the opinion that multiple concussions during his career damaged his frontal lobe, which caused cognitive dysfunction.[3]. The Steelers initially said Webster died of a heart attack but later declined to comment. Webster was diagnosed with brain damage in 1999, an injury caused by all the years of taking shots to the head. "He was one of the main reasons why we won four Super Bowls,'' Hall of Fame running back Franco Harris said. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, class of 1997. Exactly what they knew — and when — was never made public. [8] After retirement, Webster had amnesia, dementia, depression, and acute bone and muscular pain. These revelations regarding Webster and several other players could have an impact on the mega-lawsuit facing the NFL, in which the smaller lawsuits of many retired players have been consolidated.The plaintiffs in that pending lawsuit, filed in June in Philadelphia, aim to hold the NFL responsible for health problems related to concussions and brain trauma suffered … The league doctor agreed that his injuries were American football-related and, in a statement unearthed years later, the NFL acknowledged that the sport could cause brain disease. The authorities stand accused of sweeping the issue under the carpet. [6] At the time of his retirement, he was the last active player in the NFL to have played on all four Super Bowl winning teams of the 1970s Steelers. Basically, I'm rehabbing my brain. “He tried to stay low-key,” says Moon Area High School’s football coach Mark Capuano. 'Two, OK, he's all right.' We are no longer supporting IE (Internet Explorer), 8 Hiking Shoes for Women That Protect Your Feet Mile After Mile, 7 Early Parkinson’s Disease Symptoms Besides Tremors. With beauty, wit, curiosity, and grace, she finds the hidden soul of America. Hidden America is essential reading.”—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Do Not Sell My Personal Information – CA Residents. The second of six children, he didn’t have an easy childhood: His parents divorced when he was ten, and a year later his home burned down, with Mike, his mother and siblings barely escaping the inferno. REVEALED: Robert Lewandowski follows a 'backwards eating' diet - including eating dessert FIRST - devised by... Erling Haaland claims he doesn't score ENOUGH goals despite netting his 12th in 15 games for Norway with... Alex Albon is set to replace George Russell at Williams next season after his switch to Mercedes with the... Arsenal 'reject bid for Mohamed Elneny from Galatasaray' on deadline day in Turkey with Mikel Arteta... Who's better... club or country?Analysts reveal why Gareth Southgate's England would come SECOND to Man City... 'PSG just seem like legends because of their players' AGE! Found inside – Page 187(sub-concussive hits fall below the threshold for a concussion but are still ... including Mike Webster, Terry Long, Andre Waters, and Justin Strzelczyk. “Mike had dementia due to head trauma, a series of blows to the head over a period of time,” Krieg says. But then, Maddox wasn’t there at Mike Webster’s funeral. “I’ve been in 350,000 car accidents,” Mike replied. Webster's estate brought a lawsuit in Maryland's U.S. District Court against the National Football League. Over the years he picked up expenses for the financially beleaguered Webster and even paid for almost all of his $7,600 funeral. Found inside – Page 47Though he was not a boxer, former Pittsburgh Steelers lineman Mike Webster was also diagnosed with dementia pugilistica. During a 16-year career, ... ‘With the NFL, they had known for quite some time about the damaging effects of repeated concussive injuries yet chose to try and dispute the validity of the medical evidence,’ he said. [/pullquote]. Nicknamed "Iron Mike", Webster anchored the Steelers' offensive line during much of their run of four Super Bowl victories from 1974 to 1979 and is considered by many as the greatest center in NFL history. Colin remembers that his father was shaking so much from his condition that his desperate solution was to buy a police Taser gun. [dropcap]A[/dropcap]t the Pittsburgh Steelers executive offices, overlooking the manicured field where the pro football team practices, Mike Webster’s sweetly smiling photo stands out on a wall decorated with glowering tough-guy shots of the team’s other famous players. His youngest child, Hillary, who was living in Wisconsin with her mother, says that in recent years, “My father called me every night.” But his two sons, who lived with him at different times, saw a more tortured side. "There's a broad definition of what living out of your … In his last year in Pittsburgh, Webster returned the favor by mentoring the then-rookie Dawson in the same manner Mansfield had mentored Webster earlier in his career. Back to Reading. Mike Webster: Pos: C-G, Career: 245 G (56th), 5xAll-Pro(1st), 9xProBowl, Steelers/Chiefs 1974-1990, born WI 1952, died 2002 Serving as a backup at center and guard for two years while being mentored by veteran center Ray Mansfield, Webster became the team's starting center in 1976, where he remained for 150 consecutive games. But doctors say he suffered multiple concussions, among his many other injuries, on his way to gridiron glory. So Webster launched a single-minded coaching clinic. Mike was also on the sidelines at every game. Found insideThis is essential reading for anybody with an interest in sport, from students and researchers to athletes, coaches, teachers, parents, policy-makers, and clinicians. The Concussion true story confirms that Pro Football Hall of Fame member Mike Webster did live out of his pickup truck for a period of 18 months, but according to Webster, he wasn't exactly homeless. "From time to time, yes, I did sleep in my car and stay in my car," Webster admitted to The St. Petersburg Times in the late 1990s. For parents struggling to decide whether to allow their kids to play football, this eye-opening, heart-wrenching, and ultimately inspiring story may be one of the most important books they will read. Dr. Bennet Omalu attends the "Concussion" premiere on Dec. 16, 2015 in New York City. [/pullquote]. “I just thought he was angry at me all the time.”. Often the force of the hits are 20 Gs or more. In the Concussion movie, it is stated that Omalu spent $20,000 of his own money to research the brain of former Steeler Mike Webster. “Everybody gets injured, but most injuries aren’t reported,” says Miki Yaras-Davis, director of benefits at the NFL Players Association. Cracks stretched along his feet, so he tried to close them with duct tape. "Game Brain," the GQ article on which the movie is based, states that Omalu spent as much as $100,000 of his own money on CTE research and testing. Nicknamed "Iron Mike", Webster's reputation for durability led him to play even through injuries. “I didn’t realize he had a brain injury,” says Pamela. Some half-dozen times Webster requested an application for disability payments from the NFL, but he never followed through. Found inside – Page 130Since Mike Webster's CTE diagnosis there have been hundreds of autopsies of ... head trauma has been around for much longer than we originally thought. Yes. Grateful to be playing in the big time, Webster overcompensated for his size by becoming the hardest-working, play-with-pain member of the team. ', REVEALED: Robert Lewandowski 'follows a 'backwards eating' diet overseen by his wife Ana and needs a special smell in his bedroom to sleep properly' as the secrets behind the 33-year-old's scoring prowess are revealed before Poland face EnglandÂ, Erling Haaland claims he doesn't score ENOUGH goals despite netting his 12th in 15 games for Norway with hat-trick against Gibraltar... as Martin Odegaard calls star's record 'absolutely insane', Alex Albon is set to replace George Russell at Williams next season after his switch to Mercedes with the Brit returning to Formula One following a year on the sidelines having been dropped by Red Bull Â, Arsenal 'reject bid for Mohamed Elneny from Galatasaray' on deadline day in Turkey with Mikel Arteta convinced of his value to squad, Who's better... club or country? Bob Fitzsimmons did not know what in the world to say, in 2002, to the man with the thick accent who called from the Pittsburgh coroner’s office, four days after Mike Webster died of … This book will help you answer this question, for only you, the parent can answer this question. But after you have read the last page of this book, it will be a very easy question for you to answer. Mike Webster was a center for the Pittsburgh Steelers and he died at the age of 50 from suspected CTE. While Dr. Omalu provided answers regarding Mike’s behavioral and neurological issues, the concussion settlement in 2013 did anything but for the Webster family. Meanwhile, Mike began drifting back to Pittsburgh, spending more and more time there. “He preferred it if people didn’t recognize him.”, The last year of Webster’s life brought new woes: His divorce became final, his health worsened and his finances collapsed again. Draws on interviews, e-mails, and previously undisclosed documents to reveal how the NFL has endeavored to cover up evidence of the connection between football and brain damage for the past two decades. Dr. Bennet Omalu, a forensic neuropathologist, examined tissue from Webster and eight other NFL players and determined they all showed the kind of brain damage previously seen in people with Alzheimer's disease or dementia, as well as in some retired boxers. Iron Mike Webster played in the NFL between 1974 and 1990, winning four Super Bowls. [citation needed] From 1964 to 2006, just four men started at that position: Mansfield, Webster, Dermontti Dawson and Jeff Hartings. In industrial disease cases such as asbestos, Baylis explains, courts look for a ‘reasonable’ date of knowledge ‘at what point should things have been acted upon’. It has been speculated that Webster's ailments were due to wear and tear sustained over his playing career; some doctors estimated he had been in the equivalent of "25,000 automobile crashes" in over 25 years of playing football at the high school, college and professional levels. “He got his bell rung all the time, just like the rest of us,” says former teammate Rocky Bleier. In its March 2003 issue, Reader’s Digest wrote about Webster’s shattered life. The weekend of the funeral, Harris went to see Garrett Webster play football and was impressed by the teenager’s potential. The NFL started talking about how they could avoid the injuries of concussions. He wasn’t eligible, to be honest. Media interest grew after a very widely viewed sports replay. Found inside – Page 40The medical evidence had been building up about the dangers of concussion, ... The case of a former NFL player, Mike Webster, helped to encapsulate the ... “He had such kindness in his heart,” she recalls. Doctors did not establish a direct link between heading and dementia but the findings still rocked football. His toughness made him a winner: He was voted onto the All-Pro team six straight years, won four Super Bowl rings, and joined the greatest players ever in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Iron Mike played in the NFL between 1974 and 1990, winning four Super Bowls for a team who took pride in their toughness. I did not even know his name, Mike Webster. ), [pullquote] There was no other explanation for Webster’s deterioration; the repeated banging of his brain against his skull had damaged the brain’s nerve cells. His anguish is evident as he writes about his mental state: “… deep, confusing, twisting fishing line tangled up mess of confusing things go on all the time.”. He also relished his indestructible image. The article is printed in its entirety below. Our piece addressed the role that the thousands of concussions Webster sustained during his football career affected his brain and contributed to his death in 2002 at age 50. 3. Players worry about ending their career, she says. Bradshaw is right. “Everybody gets hurt in football,” he says, “but very few players get hurt permanently. In 1999, he was ranked number 75 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players. He played in the NFL between 1974 and 1990, winning four Super Bowls for a team who took pride in their toughness. Webster played two seasons in Kansas City before announcing his retirement on March 11, 1991, after a 17-year career with a total of 245 games played at center. [2] Webster played during an era when protective equipment (especially helmets) was inferior, and head injuries were simply considered part of the game. How did Mike Webster’s personality and behavior change after he retired from 17 years ... You don’t actually have to have a concussion to get CTE. At the time of his retirement, he had played more seasons as a Steeler than anyone else in franchise history (15 seasons), one season ahead of Terry Bradshaw and Hines Ward. “He’d open doors for me, he’d call when he said he’d call. 3:00 AM. ‘They can happen spontaneously without a history of sport and concussive injuries — it can just develop,’ Baylis says. « From time to time, yes, I did sleep in my car and stay in my car, » Webster admitted to The St. But this three-and-a-half-fold increase, at some point they probably were fixed with a greater duty of care. Webster was a free agent after 1988 season. Missed only four games first 16 seasons. It was too late to undo the harm, however, just as it was too late to dissuade his son Garrett from playing. “Even on vacations, he’d pack the football ‘sled’ and push it across a field.”, Webster’s former teammates remember him as a quiet, determined man who seemed blessed with a photographic memory—and who studied the game as if every play depended on him. Mike Webster. “You look at the center position as the foundation,” says legendary running back Franco Harris. Mike Webster died of a heart attack at age 50 on September 24, 2002, at a Pittsburgh hospital. But as the weekend progressed he complained of feeling ghastly. Found inside – Page 161Concussion in sports, mostly football, will cause Chronic Traumatic ... players including “Iron Mike” Webster who had suffered multiple concussions in their ... 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Found inside – Page 117The challenge is knowing when and how much brain trauma is too much. ... it real clear that they'd fight me to the death, like they did with Mike Webster. View Copy_of_Concussion from PSYCHOLOGY MISC at James Hillhouse High School. He was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs, who initially made him an offensive line coach before allowing him to return as the starting center. Michael L. Webster (Mike) was born in Tomahawk, Wisconsin, on March 18, 1952. “He woke up Sunday morning, his lips were purple, he was sheet white,” says Garrett. Fainaru-Wada and Fainaru report that the NFL’s retirement board went I am a Steelers fan. This title examines how brain injuries in football affect individuals and society, investigates how people are working to avoid such serious injuries in sports, and analyzes the controversies and conflicting viewpoints surrounding the issue ... In high school, Webster moved in with his dad, and went out for wrestling, then football. And the Rooneys did try to help people like Webster. Get healthy-living advice delivered to your inbox! "Forensic neuropathologist Bennet Omalu, MD, explains the science of brain trauma, offers practical solutions, and recounts the moving stories of the lives, and tragic deaths, of NFL stars cut down by gridiron dementia."-- Cover. On one occasion, Webster showed up at a game on crutches, with torn cartilage in his knee, played anyway and had surgery afterward. He was the Steelers' offensive captain for nine years. Ole's at the wheel as one of FOUR managers, while Cristiano Ronaldo's fellow subs both flopped... as superstar prepares for his second United debut, what happened to team-mates from his first? PFA urged to 'address the scandal' of forgotten footballers... Football could soon be FORCED to introduce rules to tackle... 'Losing the momentum we had would have been unthinkable': Dr... MARTIN SAMUEL: Headaches after just eight games? An avid reader, Webster could still devour books on Winston Churchill and World War II, yet his memory was so fragmented he couldn’t remember the simplest things, sometimes sleeping in his car by the side of the road because he didn’t know how to get home. Webster had several million dollars in assets when he retired, so it shocked Pamela when their Victorian house was foreclosed 18 months after he left football. Webster’s finances remain a muddle, but from conversations with his family and lawyers, it appears he poured most of his savings into investments that went bad. “A lot of guys look back, and they love the game,” says Harris. The NFL still denied misleading players and the settlement meant they admitted no guilt or acknowledged any causal link between the sport and brain damage. How many concussions did Steve young have? Contrary to rumors, Webster never admitted to using anabolic steroids during his career, even though they were legal at the time. Michael Lewis Webster (March 18, 1952 – September 24, 2002) was an American professional football player who was a center in the National Football League (NFL) from 1974 to 1990 with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs. He gave an emotional news conference apologizing for “any embarrassment and sadness” he’d caused, and was sentenced to probation. A man who, despite his anger at his own fate, was nonetheless trying at the end of his life to teach his beloved sport to a football-crazy son. The Hall of Famer’s sheer fortitude is celebrated in the caption: Webster “played the most seasons (15) and games (220) in Steeler history.”, But in Webster’s rented town house in the Pittsburgh suburb of Moon Township, his family has kept a much sadder tribute—a sheaf of Webster’s scribbled notes torn from a legal pad, page after page of heartbreaking gibberish, the legacy of a brain injury sustained while playing center for the Steelers. “All these guys were talking at the funeral about maybe they should get checkups,” says Franco Harris. Concussion 1. Found inside – Page 57Without objection , members will have 14 days to submit additional materials or ... Some were famous NFL Hall of Famers like Mike Webster and Lou Creekmur . What famous football player portrayed in the movie suffered from CTE? Former colleagues soon began to hear disturbing stories about him, but no one knew what was wrong, and Webster was mystified and frustrated himself, embarrassed that he couldn’t seem to hold a job or even remember scheduled meetings. This unprecedented look at football history from the players’ perspective combines the stories of icons such as Frank Gifford and Bart Starr with those of journeymen who shared the huddle with Johnny Unitas and rallied to halftime ... When the NFL found out about Mike Webster and how bad the injuries were, that is when the NFL started to do something about the concussions. "From time to time, yes, I did sleep in my car and stay in my car," Webster … In October 1999, Webster was awarded an NFL disability for traumatic brain injury. A cautionary assessment of the rising frequency of brain injuries among young athletes counsels parents on the risks associated with head trauma while identifying factors that contribute to missed diagnoses and brain damage, in a reference ... After he retired, he was diagnosed with brain damage, which led to his death. A man whose disturbing end has left his former teammates with questions that will forever haunt them. ‘But it’s almost two decades and there has been a strong indication that all was not well. He exhibited unusual changes in behavior, and became so agitated and restless that he used electroshock weapons on himself to induce sleep. The History of Concussions and the Future of the Sport Michael Oriard ... until Mike Webster’s autopsy told a different story. It’s a saga about a man who was loved deeply by family and friends, but who lost the relationships he prized most. Still, even the “good owners” like the Rooneys made billions off of … A landmark study last year revealed that former players are three-and-a-half times more likely to die of dementia than the general population. Astle’s daughter Dawn lamented the ‘wasted years’ and claimed the authorities had to be ‘shamed’ into action. The estate contended that Webster was disabled at the time of his retirement, and was owed $1.142 million in disability payments under the NFL's retirement plan. In its March 2003 issue, Reader’s Digest wrote about Webster’s shattered life. Yes. The Concussion true story confirms that Pro Football Hall of Fame member Mike Webster did live out of his pickup truck for a period of 18 months, but according to Webster, he wasn't exactly homeless. This from a man who 72 hours earlier didn’t know if he’d ever walk again. In Will Smith’s movie ‘Concussion,’ the actor portrays the pathologist Bennet Omalu, who first revealed proof of football’s deleterious effects on players’ brains and published breakthrough papers in medical journals on the degenerative brain disease he discovered, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. But play after play, year after year, Webster slammed into much bigger players, their helmets crashing into his like battering rams, their forearms pounding his head. I could feel a pat on my shoulder, almost a whisper in my ear, ‘Everything’s going to be all right.’”, On a chill afternoon in November, Steelers owner Dan Rooney sits in his office, fondly recalling Iron Mike. Found inside – Page 92The startling deaths of Mike Webster and Terry Long changed that. ... At our first meeting, we talked about how many concussions he had suffered during his ... But what followed was delay, denial and the discrediting of medical experts. Pittsburgh Steeler center Mike Webster was the first NFL player Omalu autopsied. Astle’s family have been campaigning for dementia in footballers to be recognised as an ‘industrial disease’ caused by heading footballs. It culminated in an historic concussion settlement, now worth £611million, after more than 4,500 former players took the NFL to court. Found insideThis is the insightful and deeply human story of Owen Thomas—a star football player at Penn, who took his own life when he was 21, the result of the pain and anguish caused by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Found inside"Author of the GQ article 'Game brain,' the basis of the major motion picture Concussion"--Cover of movie tie-in printin “He couldn’t sleep the night before a game, he was so wound up,” says Bill Webster, Mike’s father. Found insideThe book also examines the key issues affecting former NFL players in retirement: social isolation, financial concerns, inadequate career planning, psychological challenges, and physical injuries"--Amazon.com. The regular bumps and brusies “Mike would call at 2 a.m. and say he’s lost.” Webster saw a slew of doctors during this period in the mid-’90s, including one who told him he appeared to be brain-damaged. The normally animated Bradshaw was somber Monday as he told reporters of his condition. That story emerged piecemeal over several years. 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