Nanker Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 OJ does have brain damage. Whether it came from playing football or not, who knows or cares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBillsBlues Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Doctor who discovered CTE in NFL players claims O.J. Simpson has it I still don't understand how a doctor who has never treated O.J. as far as I am aware can possibly even suggest that O.J. might have CTE when there is no approved method for trying to diagnose CTE in a living brain. This just seems like a ridiculous statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metzelaars_lives Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 (edited) I'm certain that he and his discovery will have a long standing legacy in the world of sports in general and the NFL in particular. Agreed 100%. What, if a doctor Makes a breakthrough discovery is he supposed to not share with anyone lest he be labeled an "attention seeker" by some anonymous guy on some website? Sorry if the guy wants young men to be aware of the risks before playing football. What an a**hole. I'm sure OJ probably does have CTE. Edited January 29, 2016 by metzelaars_lives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. WEO Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 I still don't understand how a doctor who has never treated O.J. as far as I am aware can possibly even suggest that O.J. might have CTE when there is no approved method for trying to diagnose CTE in a living brain. This just seems like a ridiculous statement. As a pathologist, he's a doctor who never treats anyone. He looks at slides and makes diagnoses for other doctors who treat people. Agreed 100%. What, if a doctor discovers a breakthrough in cancer treatment and made his studies public, does that make him an attention-seeker? Sorry if the guy wants young men to be aware of the risks before playing football. What an a**hole. I'm sure OJ probably does have CTE. An absurd comparison---and otherwise, have you heard of such a doctor or researcher going around the country grandstanding like this? No you haven't despite major cancer fighting discoveries and treatments over the past 30 years. This guy suddenly decides, in 2016, that OJ has CTE? "While Omalu stressed that CTE does not cause the criminal behavior that led to Simpson’s incarceration, he wants the case to serve a reminder of the life-altering damage that can result from playing football." So...he says his CTE (which he would bet "his medical license on"--a joke in and of itself) did not cause OJ to commit crimes, yet he still wants OJ's (undiagnosed) CTE to serve as a reminder of.....what then? Ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBillsBlues Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 As a pathologist, he's a doctor who never treats anyone. He looks at slides and makes diagnoses for other doctors who treat people. An absurd comparison---and otherwise, have you heard of such a doctor or researcher going around the country grandstanding like this? No you haven't despite major cancer fighting discoveries and treatments over the past 30 years. This guy suddenly decides, in 2016, that OJ has CTE? "While Omalu stressed that CTE does not cause the criminal behavior that led to Simpson’s incarceration, he wants the case to serve a reminder of the life-altering damage that can result from playing football." So...he says his CTE (which he would bet "his medical license on"--a joke in and of itself) did not cause OJ to commit crimes, yet he still wants OJ's (undiagnosed) CTE to serve as a reminder of.....what then? Ridiculous. Even though he is a pathologist, I can't imagine he has access to scans of O.J.'s brain which I assume (but am not certain) would be the only way he could make such a statement with any type of certainty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Dr. Omalu desperately seeking that 16th minute of fame. The formalin has gone to his head. My first thought too. Now we're going to start guessing who has CTE? Seems a little out there for such a by-the-book pathologist. Who gives a schit? As much as I hope... Uh....you do, apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metzelaars_lives Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 (edited) As a pathologist, he's a doctor who never treats anyone. He looks at slides and makes diagnoses for other doctors who treat people. An absurd comparison---and otherwise, have you heard of such a doctor or researcher going around the country grandstanding like this? No you haven't despite major cancer fighting discoveries and treatments over the past 30 years. This guy suddenly decides, in 2016, that OJ has CTE? "While Omalu stressed that CTE does not cause the criminal behavior that led to Simpsons incarceration, he wants the case to serve a reminder of the life-altering damage that can result from playing football." So...he says his CTE (which he would bet "his medical license on"--a joke in and of itself) did not cause OJ to commit crimes, yet he still wants OJ's (undiagnosed) CTE to serve as a reminder of.....what then? Ridiculous. I don't think he's grandstanding. You think he's grandstanding because he has tainted the innocence of the game you and I both love so much and you resent him for it. He's just trying to make people aware of the dangers. Edited January 29, 2016 by metzelaars_lives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 My first thought too. Now we're going to start guessing who has CTE? Seems a little out there for such a by-the-book pathologist. Uh....you do, apparently. I don't give a crap if he has brain damage. I do give a crap about the Bills keeping his name on the ring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 The public yawned. The games played on, with players taking extra care to drill eachother helmet to helmet every week. No noticeable legacy. Yeah, but just wait until that movie Concussion comes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDIGGZ Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Now any NFL player that gets into trouble will just blame it on CTE. This should end well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotAGuy Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 CTE may be the explanation for some of the posts on TSW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. WEO Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 I don't think he's grandstanding. You think he's grandstanding because he has tainted the innocence of the game you and I both love so much and you resent him for it. He's just trying to make people aware of the dangers. He's making a ridiculous statement about the health of a man he has never met. He has discovered pathologic evidence of chronic trauma in the brains of every football player's brain he has examined. I have conceded that this will be found in every player's brain going forward. Yet no one has been able to conclude that this finding necessarily results in the behaviors he is attributing to it. The fact that so few players suffer from such disease questions the specificity of his finding for all of the symptoms he imagines for OJ. He himself says that CTE is not responsible for his criminal decisions and behavior. Then why on earth would he speculate (assume, really) that OJ has CTE? Your cancer analogy was poor and this guy is clearly grandstanding. We all now know about CTE. No he wants to tell us which players have sequelae of the disease based on what he sees on TV and reads about them in the paper? If you didn't know the definition of grandstanding before, you now do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prickly Pete Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 OJ was a violent criminal as a teenager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jr1 Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 he was lucid as an actor/sports reporter at the time. He shouldn't be able to use this as an excuse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eme123 Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 I think this website is giving me brain damage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billykaykay Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Doctor who discovered CTE in NFL players claims O.J. Simpson has it For the life of me, I can't ever remember OJ taking a big hit while he played for the Bills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 he was lucid as an actor/sports reporter at the time. He shouldn't be able to use this as an excuse No, by all means use it as an excuse. In fact, introduce it on appeal: "Your honor, the defendant can't be held responsible for his crimes, because he has CTE." "Okay. Introduce the evidence proving he has CTE, and I'll consider commuting his sentence." "But your honor, that proof can only be acquired at autopsy." "So?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prickly Pete Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 (edited) he was lucid as an actor/sports reporter at the time. He shouldn't be able to use this as an excuse haha, I wouldn't call his performances "lucid". I think he opened the door for Shannon Sharpe. Edited January 29, 2016 by HoF Watkins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 haha, I wouldn't call his performances "lucid". I think he opened the door for Shannon Sharpe. Oh, come on. He was brilliant as the guy who runs in The Towering Inferno... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uticaclub Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 He didn't do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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