"The NFL star and the brain injuries that destroyed him."

As substantial portion of the populace has no clue what to do with themselves on fall and winter Sundays without the lure of dawn to dusk football. Currently the professional players and owners seem about to resolve their latest labor dispute, and the sighs of relief from the hinterlands are palpable, and yet in all of the current anguished verbiage, only Jim Brown's comments in the past Sunday's New York Times have remained with me.

"I don’t want the game to be a killer of our players.”

Yesterday morning, The Guardian's Ed Pilkington picked up the story. It is not a pleasant read, reminding us of the physical toll exacted by the modern game.

The NFL star and the brain injuries that destroyed him

Before the former American football player Dave Duerson killed himself, he asked that his brain be left to researchers studying head injuries among athletes. What it revealed shocked the scientists.