American sports agent Leigh Steinberg has represented some of the biggest stars in football history, and now he takes another step in his longtime passion to fight one of the greatest dangers of sports – concussion.
Steinberg recently launched the Leigh Steinberg Foundation, which aims to educate parents and finance research for the treatment of concussion in sports.
“It is our effort to collect funds for research in order to promote awareness, prevention and remedies, to put money aside for children at risk that have neurological problems or concussion that cannot Not get treatment and finance research, “said Steinberg. “We have a doctor committee with 10 doctors on this subject, and we will collect funds to try to cause more healing to this.”
The veteran agent should also organize a Super Bowl party in New Orleans and also invites several neurologists from across the country to educate participants in concussion.
And as the Super Bowl Lix marks the last match of the 2024 football season, the country will seek to turn the page on one of the most frightening years for the brain lesions in recent history.
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In Alabama, the quarter junior of Morgan Academy, Caden Tellier, received a head injury During the third quarter of the 30-22 victory of his team against the Southern Academy in Selma, Alabama, at the end of August.
Only a few days later, a 13-year-old child in Virginia-Western died after suffering head injury to a college football practice. Cohen Craddock, a student of eighth, who played a defensive line for Madison Middle School in Madison, suffered serious bleeding and swelling of the brain after making a tackle.
Months after that, the Alabama football player A & M University Medrick Burnett Jr. died after having undergone a serious head of the head during a match at the end of November.
Steinberg says that his inspiration to continue this cause came when he saw a lot of his own quarter-back clients several times at the end of the 1980s.
“They continued to get hit, and when we went to the doctor and asked:” How much doctors have no response because the brain is the last border of medical research “Said Steinberg to PK Press Club Digital in an exclusive interview.
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Steinberg began to host panels with players to promote awareness of brain health in the 1990s. In one of these panels, an appearance of the neuropathologist Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu, the subject of the film “Conmicking”, convinced Steinberg how many concussions are too numerous.
Steinberg was informed that three or more was the magic number. After that, said Omalu, there is a higher “exponentially” rate of Alzheimer’s, parkinsons, premature cyicity, traumatic encephalopathy of Horno and depression.
But Steinberg saw players playing after undergoing a third concussion.
“Part of the problem with players is that they are in a state of denial regarding their physical health,” said Steinberg. “Since they were in pop culture, the little league believes that real men play this piece in all circumstances. The concept of long -term health is an abstraction. So it is difficult to protect them, and C ‘is simply very difficult. ”
Steinberg even admits that he saw some of his own clients suffer at least three concussions, and this gave him reservations to encourage them to continue playing afterwards.
“I would speak with them in private, because in the end, it is their decision, but I try to be a voice that would intervene in the dialogue because the traumatic cerebral lesion is real, it has long consequences Term, “said Steinberg, adding that these conversations have taken place before the recent progress of medical technology that gives clearer photos and treatments for a person’s brain.
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Leigh Steinberg speaks on stage during the Buoniconti fund to heal the 39th annual dinner of sports legends of Great Sports, at Hilton Midtown on September 30, 2024, in New York. The event collects the essential funds of the Buoniconti Fund, the Miami project fundraising branch to cure paralysis, a center of excellence designated at the Miami Miller University School and at the First World Center Research on injuries to spinal cord lesions. (Mike Coppola / Getty Images for the Buoniconti Fund to cure paralysis)
Steinberg specialized in the representation of the star quarters as an agent. He presented the overall choice n ° 1 eight times in the NFL draft, while representing 62 choices in total in the first round. His list of customers includes NFL legends like Troy Aikman and Steve Young.
This last NFL season was a particularly bad year for the brain lesions in the quarter-Arrière.
The quarter-Arrière of the Eagles of Philadelphia, Jalen Hurts, who should lead his team in the Super Bowl in New Orleans, underwent a concussion in the first half against Washington Commanders during the week 16. Displayed his regular season, but he returned in time for the playoffs.
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But before the playoffs, Hurts said that he did not remember an incident that occurred on the sidelines, a few moments after having undergone the concussion.
“It is so far a long time ago, I don’t really remember,” said Hurts to journalists on January 10. “Being out of routine, you go through a routine every day, and be difficult. I’m obviously dealing with different symptoms, is not fun either.”
The quarter -back of Miami dolphins, Tua Tagovailoa, underwent a concussion – the third in his career in the NFL – in an inclination of the start of the season with the Buffalo Bills, on a television match at the national level. Tagovailoa had already undergone several concurrent concussion in the space of only weeks during the 2022 season. The third in his career sparked national controversy, while some former players and media experts called him to retire .
Tagovailoa returned to play last season anyway.
Jacksonville’s jaguars quarterrier, Trevor Lawrence underwent a concussion when he was a victim of illegal success in the Houston Texans, Azeez Al-Shaair, in a match in early December. The blow ended the Lawrence season, while Al-Shaair was suspended for three games and strongly criticized by the public and even a framework of the NFL.
While the country now turns its attention to New Orleans for the Super Bowl Lix between the Eagles and the Chiefs of Kansas City, Steinberg will be present when he seeks to counter the danger that comes with football at the level of the championship.
