Tyler Sash was drafted by the New York Giants and became a part of the 2012 Super Bowl winning team. Concussions would c | dG1faXZhV2Q1cVBqTzg
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00:00I guess if my son was Tom Brady or Brett Favre or some of those guys, it would get a lot
00:16more attention from our country.
00:19Atlanta has selected Brett Favre, quarterback, Southern Mississippi.
00:26Would I have done it different?
00:29Had I known?
00:32I don't know that.
00:33Tyler just had kind of this magnetic personality.
00:37I can't tell you how many times my head hit the turbine.
00:41Concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury.
00:45The Giants rookie suffered a concussion in the NFC Championship game.
00:48Player down for the Giants, that's Sash.
00:52Well, I don't think he ever recovered from that.
00:56I unequivocally think there's a link between playing football and CTE.
01:00The stress and the trauma.
01:03Players will not help themselves.
01:05They're brought up in a culture of denial.
01:08And that's scary.
01:09The anxiety, the depression, something was not right.
01:1399% of the people that they looked at showed signs of CTE.
01:16Don't ever be a fool and think otherwise.
01:18This is Tyler, 100%.
01:21Knowing what I know now, probably I wouldn't have played football.
01:25After a concussion, I probably wouldn't have won back in the game.
01:28But back then you did.
01:30We're looking at a dangerous full contact sport where too many players play too long
01:36and therefore suffer physical consequences including, especially importantly, CTE.
01:42Good things will come from Tyler's story.