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...Change youth football. Chris Nowinski is a former Harvard defensive tackle whose pro-wrestling career - he didn't want to sit in a cubicle - was derailed by concussions. He has since emerged as one of the country's most prominent advocates for football reform and has written a book, Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis. To illustrate his points, he pulls up a YouTube clip titled "Big Football Hit - Helmet to Helmet." In a drill supervised by the coaches, two 8-year-olds charge toward each other, heads down, as a woman yells, "Go! Go!" The tiny helmets collide...
...which is a positive development. Yet during the Jan. 24 telecast of the NFC championship game, Fox repeatedly replayed images of Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre being brutalized. The most powerful media outlet in sports, ESPN, should set the standard for concussion awareness. "I think that's fair," says Chris Berman, ESPN's lead football studio host. "We've done it and will be a little more cognizant of the fact that a 10-second comment, for a 13-year-old or high school player watching, might be helpful." Let's see if he keeps his word...
...Chris was transported 32 miles (50 km) from San Marcos to University Medical Center Brackenridge in Austin. There a doctor told Eddie and Pita Canales that their son was paralyzed from the shoulders down. Eddie, the director of operations at the University of Texas at San Antonio bookstore, quit his job to tend to his son. He turned him over every two hours to prevent bedsores because the insurance company initially refused to pay for a pressure-supported mattress. He inserted a catheter every three hours. He gave Chris medications every six hours. He slept on the floor next...
...result of his experience, Canales started a nonprofit group called Gridiron Heroes to lend crucial support to other families experiencing the same horror with their sons that he had gone through. Some of the support is financial, but more of it is emotional, and Chris, who through relentless work now has some mobility in his arms, finds sustenance in his life from helping others so they are not alone...
Eddie and Chris, who is now 26, still love the game and realize that it is a collision sport. But their efforts to increase awareness of the dangers have gotten a mixed reception. A suggestion that 25 cents of every ticket sold at high school games in Texas be set aside to help defray the cost of caring for paralyzed players went nowhere. During the off-season, the Canaleses go to clinics, and coaches listen intently. During the season, the coaches turn deaf in favor of winning at any cost. (See the year in health...