Don't punt on football's concussion issues, but don't quit the game either

Two major football-related studies have been published in recent weeks, but you likely have not heard about one of them.

The highly-publicized one is an updated study by the Journal of the American Medical Association that found 88 percent of 202 brains taken from deceased former football players (at all levels) revealed some degree of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. The other was an analysis of multi-decade survey data of men who played Wisconsin high school football in 1957, published in the estimable “JAMA Neurology.”