But upon opening his skull, Mike's brain looked normal. They will squash you. And while he's up there, Casson is off to the side and he's rolling his eyes. It's a part of growing up. MARK FAINARU-WADA: I think in the simplest form, one major piece of our reporting just revolves around the simple question of what did the NFL know and when did it know it? It's Dennis Brown coming in. League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis: Directed by Michael Kirk. ALAN SCHWARZ: I remember Julian being furious, absolutely furious at how they had been treated in that room. In a special two-hour investigation, FRONTLINE and prize-winning journalists Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada of ESPN reveal the hidden story of the NFL and brain injuries, drawn from their book League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth . DOCUMENT: "It might be safe for college/high school football players to be cleared to return to play on the same day as their injury.". Whether she wanted us to start you know, I don't know where she's coming from on that. And a lawyer is not there to offer competitive athletic advice, either. U.S. Energy Information Administration. ROBERT STERN, Ph.D., Neuropsychologist, BU CTE Center: I remember my feeling. All those parameters are removed. They publicly said he should retract his findings. At an airport hotel, the league gathered the top NFL brass, team doctors and trainers. And not that everybody was looking down. ROBERT STERN: Tom McHale was a brilliant guy, went to Cornell, had been playing football since a kid. I want to know, what are you doing now? of Pittsburgh Medical Ctr. JANE LEAVY: The attitude is so careful about that this is a person that's being delivered into their care. NFL NARRATOR: In the pit, there is more violence per square foot than anywhere else in sport! PETER KEATING: All the teams are present. NARRATOR: The league agreed to pay $765 million to resolve the lawsuit. And she didn't drop a beat and said, "Are you kidding!" In a midtown Manhattan restaurant, an internal NFL research document was leaked to a reporter. But no, you're not coming.". NARRATOR: He would take on the task of finding brains of former football players for Dr. McKee. NARRATOR: The first broadcast of Monday Night Football in 1970 marked a turning point in the game's popularity and its revenues. No.". You know, that changes the game to me. The National Football League, a multibillion-dollar commercial juggernaut, presides over Americas indisputable national pastime. NARRATOR: But they continued to report the story, beginning with Mike Webster's career in the NFL. 2. Do you now acknowledge that there is a link between the game and these concussions that people have been getting, some of these brain injuries? How safe is it for children to play football? "", NARRATOR: denied players suffered any long-term problems from concussions sustained while playing football, DOCUMENT: "that there was no evidence of worsening injury or chronic cumulative effects of multiple MTBIs in". STEVE FAINARU: And that decision would change the NFL because if Webster's brain had not been examined, I don't honestly think that we would be where we're at today. STAN SAVRAN: That just fit perfectly into the way they saw their own lives and what they had to be in order to survive. The National Football League, a multibillion-dollar commercial juggernaut, presides over America's . Closeclose, Feedback, questions, or accessibility issues: libraries@wisc.edu, (Agricultural & Life Sciences, Engineering), Find articles in journals, magazines, newspapers, and more, Locate databases by title and description, Discover digital collections, images, sound recordings, and more, Find information on spaces, staff, services, and more, Archives and Special Collections Requests. ROGER GOODELL: that we've reached an agreement here that resolves these issues, and we'll move forward from there. But the issue will be hard to ignore. JANE LEAVY, Author, The Woman Who Would Save Football: I don't think anyone else but the wives, sisters, mothers, daughters, and Ann McKee, could have forced this issue into American consciousness. . Who is this guy who doesn't know Mike Webster in Pittsburgh?". Look out! ANN McKEE, M.D., Neuropathologist, BU CTE Center: We take it out, we weigh it, we photograph it, all the external surfaces. ALAN SCHWARZ: They refused to listen to people who didn't share their opinions about the research, and it was very much, you know, putting a stake in the ground saying everybody else is wrong. I looked again. NARRATOR: 49ers quarterback Steve Young was another one of Leigh Steinberg's clients. Seau made millions. You know, he's going to hurt me. His claim for disability was filed with the National Football League's retirement board. ROGER GOODELL: We're going to let the medical individuals make those points. I'm, like, "Who's Terry Long?" They haven't looked at brain after brain after brain. ROBERT STERN, Ph.D., Neuropsychologist, BU CTE Center: Not everyone who hits their head gets this disease. He's a rheumatologist. I really think it shouldn't be published. When we are 50, 40 years old, we probably won't be able to walk. Franco Harris is down to 30, big pileup. Oh, let's go to Tampa Bay where the Super Bowl's about to play out, where there's 4,000 media members who are there waiting to watch. PETER KEATING: Dr. Omalu is excluded, just underscoring how they don't want to do business with him. And the answer was, and I'm virtually quoting, "Research has not shown that there are any long-term consequences to concussions in NFL players as long as each injury is treated properly. STEVE FAINARU: There were cracks running the length of his feet, and they were incredibly painful. ANNOUNCER . Glossary; Forum; pbs frontline special league of denial apa citation. : We don't know who is at risk for it. NEWSCASTER: Dr. Casson resigned from the NFL's concussion committee. He would just go off on the tangents at that point. Ann McKee she cannot tell me where it's starting. This is still not something that we're buying into.". And with that head, he'd pop you. LISA McHALE, Wife: Restlessness, irritability and discontent describe Tom to a T today, but no way is it anywhere near the man I had known and the man I had been married to for years. He'd say, "You know, the worst thing is, is I'm actually getting to the point where sometimes, or if I don't have my medicine," he said, "I'm cold and I don't realize that I can fix it by putting a jacket on.". NARRATOR: For Dr. McKee's colleague Dr. Cantu, the controversial answer was that no one under 14 should play tackle football. Like, he didn't have that stamina physically. ROBERT STERN, Ph.D., Neuropsychologist, BU CTE Center: What it showed was that former NFL players seem to have memory-related disorders at a much, much higher rate than people in the regular community. NARRATOR: Then 11 years after he retired, the people of Pittsburgh received some bad news. ANNOUNCER: He's at the 40! Now, Borland is known as the most dangerous man in football, a powerful voice in the NFL's concussion crisis. New York published from McGraw Hill Companies. Then instead of the NFL, he became a professional wrestler.. MARK FAINARU-WADA: He ends up with the nickname Chris Harvard, the persona of this sort of snobbish wrestler who's smarter than all the fans. STEVE FAINARU: At that point, there's nothing else to do except leave. NARRATOR: The meeting had changed nothing. Let me spend time with this brain. O nama. What can be done? NARRATOR: They insisted the league had done nothing wrong. [laughs] So we continued talking, talking. PETER KEATING: I don't think we needed a trial to know that the NFL conducted a lot of shoddy research. If Will Smith's character in the upcoming movie "Concussion" seems familiar, it might be because you've already met the real Dr. Bennet Omalu in FRONTLINE's "League of Denial.". PETER KEATING, Reporter, ESPN: A lawyer is not there to offer medical advice. What causes some of the injuries that our players are still dealing with? I believe in empirically determined, scientifically valid data. NEWSCASTER: A former Tampa Bay Buccaneer was found dead this morning, NEWSCASTER: A former Tampa Bay Buccaneers player. Said, "Oh, he's another NFL player. Dr. Bailes called me and said the NFL is putting together a conference on CTE, that you were not invited. A text book: The second edition of Psychology and Your Life by Robert S. Feldman written in 2013. I mean, what have I done? PBS Frontline special League of Denial The document found at this address: (2013).pdf The episode of Friends titled: The One After Joey and Rachel Kiss The 6 th edition of the APA Manual Russell, D.O (Director) Gordon, J. Use these letters in both in-text citations and the Reference list. And I'm thinking I should donate my brain to this work.". CHRIS NOWINSKI: As long as the NFL dismissed this, that meant that parents were signing their kids up to go play football, believing that there was no risk. I mean, your money's gone. MARK FAINARU-WADA: The Times now suddenly has a huge story, that the NFL has acknowledged a link between brain damage and football. The thing you want your kids to do most of all is succeed in life and be everything they can be. And then he'd lift his shoulders. That's proven by the six-year study that we have and the research that's been done that looks at that issue intensively. If you need more information on APA citations check out our APA citation guide or start citing with the BibguruAPA citation generator. NARRATOR: Then just one month later, in Chicago, a dramatic gesture from Commissioner Goodell. And they had asked players, or their representatives, their wives, "Have you been diagnosed by a physician as having Alzheimer's, dementia, or any other memory-related disease?"". Depends on who you listen to. NFL NARRATOR: When you talk about big-hitting safeties, the Eagles Donnie Dawkins always emerges. And then to be down to a place of poverty, a place where, you know, your brain can't function to finish a sentence without some help from Ritalin or whatever you need to function for a short period of time. So I tased him, and he goesand he goes to sleep. The Hall of Fame center Mike Webster died at the age of 50. NARRATOR: Dr. Omalu had been looking for a chance to get back in the game in a big way. ALAN SCHWARZ: While we were talking, he said "It's clear that there are long-term consequences to concussions in NFL players." Causation did football cause CTE? So they're basically paying around $120 million per game. And sure enough, stripped across the top of The Times sports section the next day is that very story. And I said, "My God, of course. He fumbled the ball! We don't know the cause and effect. ", [www: Timeline: NFL's changing positions]. "Did what does that and so what's that mean?" compliance manager Jay Fialkov . It's a big deal. NARRATOR: Lisa McHale had decided to go public with her husband's story. He said, "All you got to do is tase me right here." 45 had CTE. ANNOUNCER: And the Pittsburgh Steelers become the first franchise in history to win six Super Bowls! And Omalu's response was, "Who's Mike Webster? NARRATOR: Harry Carson has been studying the matter since he retired 25 years ago. 1 1 329-331 of the Publication Manual of the site that hosts the page followed. ANNOUNCER: a sight that is the last thing in the world the 49ers would want to see. And I went through the same sequence of answers again. A lawyer is there to figure out what the league needs to do to defend itself against a storm that may or may not come, but the league has to be ready to fight. That's the equivalent of driving a car at 35 miles per hour into a brick wall 1,000 to 1,500 times per year. STEVE FAINARU: She's intimidated from the start because she knew enough about Ira Casson, she said, to know that he wasn't necessarily a friend. And there was clearly among the NFL committee, there was just a very steadfast belief that this is not a problem. Steve has a Pulitzer Prize for reporting in Iraq. LEGAL AIDE: OK, representing the National Football League will be Paul Clement. It was a hard message, a difficult message, a bad message, but it appeared to be true. : Getting it into the hands of good science is their the goal there. And that's what they were. CHRIS NOWINSKI: What motivated me every day was the fact that my head was killing me. MARK FAINARU-WADA: They were saying, "Football caused this. We're talking about a nefarious injury, one that you never feel until it's too late. MLA citation generator could help will change over time, you And this is what jumped out at him as he looked at it through the microscope. ", Dr. HENRY FEUER: I you know,I don't know why she feels that way. STEVE FAINARU: About 200 people are gathered there, and running the show is Ira Casson. NEWSCASTER: and violent, off-the-field incidents. A center for the Pittsburgh Steelers throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Webster was seen as . STEVE FAINARU, FRONTLINE/ESPN: He began to assemble a case with Webster to basically say that Webster had suffered brain damage as a result of his 17-year career in the NFL. JUNIOR SEAU: You have to sacrifice your body. But at that point, I was just kind of you know, I don't want to hear all these things. Watch the Trailer. NARRATOR: For Mike Webster, the head hits just kept on coming for 17 years. PETER KEATING, Reporter, ESPN: It sure looks like it was just a relentless and endless delaying action. Bradshaw fires. NARRATOR: In a letter to the journal Neurosurgery, Dr. Pellman and other members of the NFL's MTBI committee attacked Dr. Omalu's paper. The minute you put your pads on, you're only one play away from getting seriously injured. He was a leader on the team. Dr. ANN McKEE: I never forget that the brain is a human being. STEVE FAINARU: He gets the first flight out the next morning. NARRATOR: Nowinski made the hard calls, asking families to donate the brain of a deceased loved one. Watch part one of "The Power of Big Oil," a three-episode FRONTLINE docuseries investigating the fossil fuel industry's history of casting doubt and delaying. Dr. HENRY FEUER: If we for some reason coming came across as being disrespectful, then I would say that everybody else we interviewed over the 15 years must have felt the same way. You know, as much as wrestling is performance, there's a very, very small margin of error. NARRATOR: It was a scientific study of former players commissioned by the National Football League itself. NEWSCASTER: ABC News and ESPN have learned exclusively Seau's brain, NEWSCASTER: visible signs of CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy. To cite an episode of TV: Writer, W. In the text, include the source name and year of publication in parentheses at the end of your sentence, before the punctuation. You know, the NFL has had this strategy of going nuclear every time it goes to court because the first time you ever lose, you open up the floodgates to potential billions of dollars of damage. I'm sure he would. CHRIS NOWINSKI, Author of the Book/Film Head Games: I'd be a fool not to worry about CTE personally. CHRIS NOWINSKI, Author of the Book/Film Head Games: We have to get the brain usually within hours of the death. a Frontline production with Kirk Documentary Group, Ltd. ; WGBH ; produced by Michael Kirk, Jim Gilmore, Mike Wiser ; reported by Jim Gilmore, Steve Fainaru, Mark Fainaru-Wada ; written by Michael Kirk & Mike Wiser and Steve Fainaru & Mark Fainaru-Wada ; directed by Michael Kirk. I know that I went to war, and I came out of the battle with what I got. NARRATOR: Dr. Feuer insists Dr. McKee is mistaken about how she was treated. Dr. ANN McKEE: There were NFL players out there that were talking to their wives and saying, "I think this might be something." And that just didn't make sense to anyone that's a scientist. NARRATOR: Over the years, he became increasingly confused. NARRATOR: In the end, Dr. Omalu's paper was not retracted. NARRATOR: The committee members believed Dr. McKee could not answer two important questions. A certain percentage of the individuals diagnosed with this have had steroid abuse, alcohol abuse, other substances abuses. JANE LEAVY, Journalist: The change was so diabolical. January 20, NARRATOR: Nowinski began to have violent nightmares and migraine headaches. NARRATOR: The players believed they had significant leverage, a threat to the NFL. CEL 2103. NARRATOR: They'd been college sweethearts. He was known as "Iron Mike". NARRATOR: He had died of an overdose. ANNOUNCER: Here's the run-up, and Super Bowl 43 is under way with the flashbulbs a-poppin'! ANNOUNCER: An awesome physical team were the Steelers today! ANNOUNCER: Second and 14, passing down, coming up for Aikman again. APA citation style refers to the rules and conventions established by the American Psychological Association for documenting sources used in a research paper. So, fine. That's, like, the budget of a Harry Potter movie every week, week in, week out. NARRATOR: Fitzsimmons pulled together Webster's complicated medical history. JULIAN BAILES, M.D., Team Neurosurgeon, Steelers, 1988-97: For the most part, people didn't want to believe it's true. September 30, The meek will never inherit this turf because every play is hand-to-hand and body-to-body combat! MARK LOVELL, Ph.D., Neuropsychologist: There's been a sense of fear that's been put into parents that "Maybe I shouldn't let my kids play sports." For the past four years, journalist Josh Baker has been trying to uncover the truth about an American familys journey from Indiana to the Islamic State groups caliphate and back. ANNOUNCER: Tonight on FRONTLINE, the epic story of football's concussion crisis. He knocked him to the moon.". contracts manager Talya Feldman . ROBERT STERN, Ph.D., Neuropsychologist, Boston University: Those initial studies from the NFL were notorious in telling the world over and over and over again, "No, there's no relationship between hitting your head in football and later life problems. January 20, Midfield! NARRATOR: Now Goodell was fully in charge of the league's handling of the concussion crisis. JULIAN BAILES, M.D., Team Neurosurgeon, Steelers, 1988-97: Certainly, we knew that if you got hit on the head so many times, maybe you had a 20 percent chance of having dementia pugilistica if you were a former professional boxer. Stand by all cameras. Jeff Seamon on it. NARRATOR: Indianapolis Colt team physician Dr. Henry Feuer was one of the NFL doctors the meeting. . Dr. ANN McKEE: I had an 18-year-old at that time. It said, you know, "If I get a concussion, am I further at risk for long-term problems?" His brilliance intellectually was matched by being an incredible athlete. Jim Gilmore. BROADCAST DIRECTOR: 15 seconds to air. pbs frontline special league of denial apa citationgarberiel battery charger manual 26th February 2023 / in what's happening in silsbee, tx today / by / in what's happening in silsbee, tx today / by Next available on Thursday 9 a.m.10 p.m. Find information on spaces, staff, and services. NARRATOR: It was young's seventh concussion. The FRONTLINE Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation and by the GBH Catalyst Fund. STAN SAVRAN, Pittsburgh Sports Reporter: It fit the personality of a society that became more violent, that became faster, wanted instant gratification. NARRATOR: In the months following Seau's death, the NFL went on the offensive. That was the first I heard of it. This is not good science. Dr. HENRY FEUER: She was seeing only those that were in trouble, and we know that there are thousands roaming around that are not having problems. Game time! The league actually never got around to looking at it in any kind of valid way. This committee was founded in 1994. LEIGH STEINBERG: The actual logo of Monday Night Football showed helmets hitting together. There was dismissiveness on his part. NARRATOR: Webster's death certificate made Omalu suspect he may have suffered from a brain disorder. And that is not scientifically valid data. ANNOUNCER: Tonight on FRONTLINE, the epic story of football's concussion crisis. Are you interested?" That's all I can say about that. STADIUM ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, here to present the Vince Lombardi Trophy, the commissioner of the National Football League, Roger Goodell. BENNET OMALU, M.D., Medical Examiner: I put the slides in and looked. WRITTEN BY. It really was a turning point. PETER KEATING, Reporter, ESPN: The closer you look, the less this holds up. An accompanying bookwritten by ESPN investigative reporters (and brothers) Mark Fainaru-Wada and . PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. NEWSCASTER: His behavior changed dramatically. He has tau in all these regions of the his brain. It's still wild and woolly, and I love 'em that way! Create a reference page by citing the following sources in correct APA format. Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation. Then Perfetto took matters into her own hands. The It became sort of like his little private mission. The people here are tough, tough-minded. Subscribe with this Change style powered by CSL. NARRATOR: The NFL committee published 16 papers. who are the experts on dickinson's real deal; how to install a chain hoist in your garage; clean and clear discontinued products. NARRATOR: Junior Seau's brain was sent to the National Institutes of Health, the NIH. COLIN WEBSTER, Son: You know, he was supergluing his teeth back into his head, and he actually made that work. Ah! I looked again. ANNOUNCER: You love 'em wild and woolly and you're seeing it now! I mean, you know, it was part of life. NEWSCASTER: He died on Tuesday. BOB SCHIEFFER, CBS News Face the Nation: [February 3, 2013] I'm going to ask you this question because some widows of some NFL players have asked me to ask you. NARRATOR: a national event with a carefully crafted story. STEVE FAINARU, FRONTLINE/ESPN: It's an extraordinary move under any circumstances. I think the fault of the paper was, it was maybe too early to be making those statements based on a fairly small sample of players, which is the major criticism of the study which I think is a valid one. NEWSCASTER: There's a changing of the guard at the National Football League. MARK FAINARU-WADA: He ends up at one point representing 21 quarterbacks in the 21 starting quarterbacks in the NFL one year. STEVE FAINARU, FRONTLINE/ESPN: Omalu parked his car and walked into the office. But the other piece of it is that the NFL wants to come off as being very forward-looking. Whoa! Our house is getting foreclosed. STAN SAVRAN, Pittsburgh Sports Reporter: This is a tough town. Stallworth touchdown! To verify accuracy, check the appropriate style guide. Maybe there should be better evidence by now. You may use your text or the OWL. NARRATOR: And after her husband's death, McHale decided to become an advocate for Dr. McKee's research. And it was probably 15 members of the committee. Assign these letters according to which title comes first alphabetically. This was showing what the findings were. He looked he looked worn out. The National Football League, a multibillion-dollar commercial juggernaut, presides over Americas indisputable national pastime. He's going forward, but all of a sudden, his head is going back and his brain is hitting up against the inside of his skull. You know, he had veins all over his legs, varicose veins and stuff like that. New York published from McGraw Hill Companies.Snickers commercial https://youtu.be/2rF . ANNOUNCER: Next, League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis. home > Latest News > pbs frontline special league of denial apa citation. He was not an expert in neurology and had no background in brain research. NARRATOR: And as the teams took the field just a few months later, in the fall of 2007, the league's definitive statement on brain injury was given to every single player in a pamphlet. And he said, "Did we win?" We don't know if concussion in and of itself is what causes the abnormalities. ANNOUNCER: Now back to the third, and he goes outside. And what we've been told is the NFL was offering virtually nothing. No. MARK FAINARU-WADA: And one of the first things McKee notices is that there's only one other woman in the room, and it's not a doctor, it's a lawyer. We don't know. NARRATOR: That May, McKee and Nowinski arrived at NFL headquarters. He was angrier quicker than before, and didn't have the patience to have, you know, the kids on his lap or take a walk with the kids. The program averages approximately 1.5 . Be sure to include a discussion of the research problem, questions, method, findings, and implications discussed by the authors. That brain is normal. NARRATOR: It was a disease never previously identified in football players, chronic traumatic encephalopathy CTE. Dr. BENNET OMALU: I wish I never met Mike Webster. CORRESPONDENT: Ira Casson leads a team of NFL doctors who did a study of several hundred active players and reported that the concern over head injuries is overblown. Dr. BENNET OMALU: That was what I thought, in my naive state of mind. Knock him out! You know, "I'm experiencing some problems. Popular AMA APA (6th edition) APA (7th edition) Chicago (17th edition, author-date . BOB FITZSIMMONS, Webster's Attorney: Mike was a legend and a hero. What did the NFL know, and when did it know it? GUULEED MUUMIN UNV 504 Week 2 APA Activity 1 and 2.doc. Answered over 90d ago. Webster wanted to prove to the world that he was going to be the toughest, and he did anything that he possibly could to do that. But we didn't really relate that in a modern sport like football, in a helmeted sport, that it could lead to that. We would just we would listen, and "Thank you," and that's it. NARRATOR: From the beginning, the league's board was skeptical, reluctant to give Webster money. And now Omalu had another case. Be sure to include an APA-style reference for each article. And I took as much brain trauma as anybody. STEVE FAINARU: He was a steroid user. NARRATOR: Outside the conference's closed doors, the new commissioner insisted that the NFL had the problem under control. They were offering "peanuts," as one person said. PAM WEBSTER, Wife: Mike wasn't Mike. APA Activity 2: Citing Practice Create a reference page by citing the following sources in correct APA format. How many NFL players are suffering concussions every season? And the headache didn't go away for five years. APA radio and television citation is almost similar with how you cite a book. Nearly four in five football players examined by one of the nation's leading brain banks tested positive for the disease now at the center of the debate over concussions in football. What prompted the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate over 150 unsolved civil rights era killings? So I think the incidence and prevalence has to be a lot higher than people realize. In this section, the new framework is examined and potential benefits and costs discussed. Listen to this crowd! And he says, "No. I'm not saying I was different than that. cheryl mchenry retiring; fruit pizza with cool whip no cream cheese; pbs frontline special league of denial apa citation close. CTE has dragged me into the politics of science, the politics of the NFL. NARRATOR: Nearly broke, homeless and losing his mind, Webster decided football had hurt him, and the NFL was going to pay for it. Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation. pbs frontline special league of denial apa citation close. Dr. ANN McKEE: I think it's going to be a shockingly high percentage. I took out the brain, processed the brain. He was he actually he broke down in tears in front of me a couple of times because he couldn't get his thoughts together and he couldn't keep them in order. ANNOUNCER: And the future opponents are going to have some trouble! ANNOUNCERS: Oh, did they hit him that time! In this case, it showed the prevalence of brain disorders was far higher among football players than the NFL anticipated. The league donated $30 million dollars to the NIH to study sports injuries, including joint disease, chronic pain and CTE. NARRATOR: At Harvard, Nowinski was a punishing tackler. In 1997, he went to see a lawyer. STEVE FAINARU: The room is dark because Aikman can't even stand looking into the light. They insinuated I was not practicing medicine, I was practicing voodoo. MARK LOVELL, Ph.D., Neuropsychologist: I look back on some of the papers, yeah, I think I could have done it differently. "It means you're going to the Super Bowl.". legal Janice Flood . Unfortunately, it cost us everything. NARRATOR: And Dr. Omalu received his brain. See production, box office & company info, Self - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Self - Neuropsychologist, Boston University, This documentary is better than what "Concussion" and Will Smith could ever think to create. "Concussion Watch" tries to answer these questions by tracking every officially reported head injury in the NFL. NARRATOR: As Bailes left the meeting, he ran into New York Times reporter Alan Schwarz. Bennet Omalu - Medical Examiner: Bennett, do you know the implications of what you're doing? 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