Jerry Jones Comments on Relationship Between Playing Football and CTE

March 23, 2016   ·   Scott Polacek   ·   Jump to comments

One of the realities of today’s NFL and football in general is the fact many fans and casual observers associate the sport with concussions, head trauma and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, commonly known as CTE. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones reportedly thinks it’s outlandish to make that latter connection.
According to Daniel Kaplan of SportsBusiness Journal, Jones told reporters Tuesday at the annual NFL owners' meetings in Florida that “it’s absurd to say there’s a relationship between CTE and playing football.”
Jones offered some detailed clarification of his position on the subject, per Mark Maske of the Washington Post:
There’s no data that in any way creates a knowledge. There’s no way that you could have made a comment that there is an association and some type of assertion. In most things, you have to back it up by studies. And in this particular case, we all know how medicine is. Medicine is evo...

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