Ex-Chief Kyle Turley testifies before congressional committee

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Former Kansas City Chief Kyle Turley testified before the House Judiciary Committee Monday about the NFL’s lack of care for players who have suffered concussions. Definitely worth reading the stories in the Washington Post and Detroit Free Press.

Turley shared with the committee the same stories that he told The Pitch last October, saying he suffered concussions, did not receive medical care and was rushed back into the trenches.

However, Dr. Ira Casson, the former co-chair of the NFL’s Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee, told the committee that “there is not enough valid, objective information to know” whether concussions caused while playing football cause brain damage.

Rep. Linda Sanchez didn’t buy it.

“I find it really ridiculous that he’s saying that concussions don’t cause long-term cognitive problems,” Sanchez said. “I think most people you ask on the street would figure that repeated blows to the head aren’t good for you.”

In an interview with The Pitch, Turley said he is donating his brain to Boston University’s Center for the Study of Traumatic

Encephalopathy, a collaboration of the Sports Legacy Institute and BU’s

medical school, to study the effects of repeated concussions.