Former NFL star, CBS anchor Irv Cross had brain disease CTE

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Irv Cross, the former NFL defensive back who became the first Black man to work full-time as a sports analyst on national television, is the latest football player diagnosed with the brain disease CTE.

"He was the nicest, kindest, most helpful, wonderful man I ever met," Cross said."But that wasn't who he was at the end. And that wasn't who he was. It was the disease that did that."

"I do think there's more education about the risks of football and I do think there's more awareness of concussion management but I still think we're way, way behind where we should be," McKee said."We need to educate young athletes that this is a risk that they are undertaking. We need to educate coaches to keep head trauma out of the game. We need to do more managing of athletes by monitoring them better. I still think there's a very cavalier attitude toward CTE.

"For somebody who had been so active and so able to do everything, and an athlete, not having balance, not having strength, not being able to do any of the things he had done before, it was embarrassing," she said."He was pretty much in a constant state of depression."George Rose/Getty Images

 

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See the PBS Frontline documentary, 'League Of Denial' to learn how the NFL and Roger Goodell tried to stonewall the findings of Dr. Ann McKee and Dr. Bennett Amalu, from Boston University. 😨

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