Harry Carson Comments on CTE, NFL Player Safety and More

May 21, 2016   ·   Tyler Conway   ·   Jump to comments

Hall of Fame linebacker Harry Carson, who spent 13 seasons as one of the NFL's most dominating forces, will not allow his six-year-old grandson to play football over concerns about long-term brain injuries.  
“I’ve sort of made the decision, as the dictator of my family, that my grandson was not going to play football,” Carson said May 4, per Nathaniel Vinton of the New York Daily News. “He understands where I’m coming from. He’s not going to be playing football. I get him involved with other sports.”
Carson, 62, has been an advocate for brain health since the end of his playing career. He was speaking in Albany, New York, to a group of state lawmakers in support of a bill that would ban tackle football for children 13 or younger. 
“I think that parents should think long and hard about what they’re signing their kids up for,” Carson said. “There is definitely a correlation between head traum...

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