Quarterback Brett Favre
played 321 straight games in the National Football League before
retiring. He recently told Sports Talk 570 in Washington that he can't
remember his daughter participating in youth soccer one summer, even
though she played several games. That, and other memory lapses, have
worried him.
"For the first time in 44 years, that put a little fear in me," he said. "God only knows the toll."
In August, thousands of
former football players and their families reached a settlement with the
NFL in a lawsuit that put concussions, and their impact on the brain,
under the microscope.
The deal called for the
NFL to pay $765 million to fund medical exams, concussion-related
compensation, medical research for retired NFL players and their
families, and litigation expenses, according to a court document filed
in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.
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