Washington (October 24, 2017)—In 2015, Chris Borland retired from the San Francisco 49ers after his rookie season, walking away from a promising career in football because he believed the National Football League wasn’t being honest about the risks of catastrophic brain damage to players.Now, Borland is working with the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) to raise awareness of how powerful interests, including the NFL, attack science for their own gain. In a new public service announcement that will begin airing this week, Borland discusses his decision to leave the NFL. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain condition caused by repeated head injuries, is a risk for football players, but the NFL spent years working to downplay and discredit research on the condition, putting a generation of players at risk.
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