Concussed: The American Dream | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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.