With every new season there is a popular sport that fans wait for in anticipation. Spring and summer bring tennis, soccer, golf and Blue Jays baseball. Winter is for hockey. But in the fall…..fall brings football!

I have to admit I am not a huge football fan-but have a healthy respect for the strategic game and the players that seem to have ball magnets for hands. Football players are giants of men and are passionate about the game.  As a sports fan, I enjoy a well played game, the skill of the players, and when the under-dog wins.

As a sport doc I am also very aware of the news coming from Boston about NFL players and the changes in their brains. Football players who died at a young age, with a history of personality and mood changes following multiple concussions have brains that show signs of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy…