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The price of football fame
Is there a generation of stars who have been ruined and don't know it yet?
Updated: August 27, 2012, 10:19 PM ET
By
Wright Thompson | ESPN.com
CANTON, Ohio -- There's something perfect about an old football player standing in a lobby telling a dinosaur joke. It's Canton, mid summer, where the greatest men ever to put on a helmet -- at least the ones (a) alive and (b) (sort of) mobile -- gather in a hotel, and a town, that oddly reflects their bodies: once powerful, now crumbling, still commanding respect. They are all, at this moment, waiting on a bus to take them to a kickoff luncheon. Joe Greene has a fancy camera slung around his ...
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FOOTBALL AT A CROSSROADS
ESPN's cross-platform series, "Football at a Crossroads," examines health issues surrounding football at all levels of the sport, from youth football, high school and college football, through semipro and professional football.
ARTICLES
- NFL reports remain inconsistent »
- Study: New cases of CTE in players »
- Mixed messages on brain injuries »
- Football is dead. Long live football »
- Teams face financial threat as claims move to head trauma »
- A number of universities work to make football safer »
- 10 steps to make the game safer »
- NFL players level with The Mag on concussions, player safety »
- Why are men willing to risk so much to play a game? »
- Concussion legacies in NFL, CFL starkly different -- so far »
- Meet the outspoken advocate for player safety and a key figure in the worst bounty system in NFL history »
- Fund once flush with multimillions faces safety crisis with depleted options »
- Two high school players give up the game because of concussions »
- To understand life after football, sit in the McKinley Grand Hotel during Hall of Fame induction weekend »
- Experts call for caution linking player suicides with football concussions »
- Comparing the mortality rates of baseball players and their NFL counterparts »
- Many scientists who are unaffiliated with ImPACT don't think it works »
- OTL survey: Concussions have taken their toll on parents »
- The woman who might save football »
VIDEO
- Study: New CTE cases

- OTL: Mixed NFL messages

- OTL: The Hit System

- Semipro football is football in a raw state

- Mike Fish on concussions in the CFL

- Donnovan Hill's life changed after one hit on the football field.

- New Pop Warner rules

- Some players are choosing quality of life and family over football

- Al Toon's son is embarking on an NFL career despite father's history

- Mike Fish on a rush to judgment



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