When Dr. Julian Bailes was the physician for the Pittsburgh Steelers, he said they were doing their best to manage concussions at that time.

“It was the standard back then if a concussion in a football player cleared and we watched them closely on the sideline, they could go back into the same game that same day. I don’t think we were bad doctors. At the time, that was the state of the art,” said Bailes, who was famously portrayed by actor Alec Baldwin in the movie Concussion.