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Friday Night Lights
2004 · Film · 118 min
Directed by Peter Berg
A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of new coach Gary Gaines to instill in the other team members -- and, by proxy, the town itself -- a sense of self-respect and honor.
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Omalu first found the syndrome in 2002 and published his studies of dead NFL players brains in 2005 and the NFL denied any link for ten years, sort of like the UIL of Texas does now. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/meet-the-real-dr-bennet-omalu/ A more recent study confirmed the prevalence of CTE with autopsies of 100 NFL players. https://www.npr.org/2017/07/25/539198429/study-cte-found-in-nearly-all-donated-nfl-player-brains
There's already been studies that showed repeated low impact hits on the head (ala soccer) create a deficit in cognitive ability in young people - http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/health/brain-damage-dementia-cte-soccer-football-study/index.html
The only reason to keep asking for more studies is to stall so they can make money off of high school athletes, high school football in Texas in a racket as documented in the book Friday Night Lights (not the movie or TV show). Also, if you don't believe that book, James Michener wrote a book 20 years earlier called Sports in America that documents the same phenomena across America in all amateur athletics.
Also I grew up in Texas and no matter how podunk the town was, they spent bank on high school football stadiums then and tens of millions now. You wouldn't understand this if you dont know this.