HBO Special Highlights Concussions in the NFL
Last week, HBO presented a 30-minute special on concussions featuring Chris Nowinski’s concussion research program. The program, part of HBO’s ongoing series Real Sports, details controversial aspects of professional sports few of us every get to learn about. The special showed the National Football League’s denial of the severe effects sports related concussions have on players. Additionally, the story mentioned that the NFL was selectively using defense-based findings to support their view, which HBO documented in 2007 with the NFL physician saying there was no evidence of damage in any study.