SLICES: Football & Neurodegenerative Death

Researchers from Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School published what is now the largest study of former NFL players ever conducted. They looked at nearly twenty thousand players who appeared in at least one NFL game between 1960 and 2019. The data is sobering: former NFL players were about four times more likely to die from neurodegenerative diseases than the general population. And while football has always been dangerous, the question is whether we can keep making it less dangerous without losing what makes it football. Scott & A discuss. — Slices is created by Scott Sigler and A B Kovacs — Produced by Steve Riekeberg — Production Assistance by Allie Press — Copyright 2026 by Empty Set Entertainment  Sometimes, maybe leave a little less on the field? The brain is elastic, or so they say. I’d like to give someone a piece of my mind using GoDaddy Promo Code CJCFOSSIG3 so’s I can save big on my first year of a 3-year domain. Big like 99% big! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices