Roger Goodell Talks CTE and Football, Declines to Address Jerry Jones Comments

March 23, 2016   ·   Joseph Zucker   ·   Jump to comments

While NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell declined to make a direct link between playing football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), he supported earlier statements made by Jeff Miller, the league's senior vice president of health and safety policy.  
Speaking at the league owners' meetings Wednesday, Goodell framed the discussion around the research into CTE, per ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert:
The most important thing for us is to support the medicine and scientists who determine what those connections are. We think that the statements that have been made by [Miller] and others have [been] consistent with our position over the years. We've actually funded those studies. So we're not only aware of those and recognize them but we support those studies. A lot of the research is still in its infancy, but we're trying to find ways to accelerate that.
Goodell begins talking about the issue at the 33-minute mark of the video below:
According to ESPN's Steve Fainaru, M...

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