PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The NFL is standing behind a top executive’s acknowledgement that the brain disease CTE can be linked to football.
League spokesman Brian McCarthy said Tuesday the comments by senior vice president for health and safety Jeff Miller “accurately reflect the view of the NFL.” Miller spoke Monday at a congressional committee’s discussion about concussions
League officials have long denied proof of a connection between playing in the NFL and the condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Critics of the NFL’s proposed $1 billion plan to settle concussion claims say Miller’s remarks are a game changer.
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AP Pro Football Writers Dave Campbell in Minneapolis and Teresa M. Walker in Nashville, Tennessee, contributed to this report.
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