NFL players are four times more likely to die of ALS, study finds

The researchers from Harvard University and Boston University's CTE Center evaluated all 19,423 NFL athletes who played one or more games between 1960 and 2019, the largest study to date on the relationship between football and ALS. Previous studies had found a similar link between football and ALS but among much smaller numbers of athletes.

The researchers noted that other potential factors that may affect ALS diagnosis and need to be evaluated include smoking, exercise exertion and pesticide exposure. They also found no relationship between position played, race or age and disease. But they said the number of athletes diagnosed with the disease made it difficult to make any determinations. The NFL has not responded to a request for comment on the findings.

Remember the ice bucket challenges for ALS? Very important moment in history, it's when we learned social media could be used to control and manipulate the masses, one trend followed the other after that day and here we all are...

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