Former NFL amateur Ed Cunningham has been alive as a academy football analyst back 1997, and was set to activate addition division for ESPN and ABC. Today, Cunningham told the New York Times that he is walking abroad from his job because he can no best disregard the game’s bloom risks.
Cunningham told the Times that he is decidedly anxious with football’s affiliation to alarming academician injuries:
“I booty abounding buying of my alignment with the sport,” he said. “I can aloof no best be in that cheerleader’s spot.”
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“In its accepted state, there are some absolute dangers: burst limbs, abrasion and tear,” Cunningham said. “But the absolute body of this is that I aloof don’t anticipate the bold is safe for the brain. To me, it’s unacceptable.”
Cunningham, a above abhorrent lineman, was captain of the University of Washington’s 1991 championship team, and went on to comedy bristles seasons in the NFL. He told the Times that he has not accomplished any affection of CTE, but that his accommodation to leave his job was still a claimed one. He was teammates with Dave Duerson and Andre Waters, both of whom were diagnosed with CTE afterwards committing suicide.
You can apprehend Cunningham’s abounding account with the Times here.
[New York Times]
