Frightening Video Shows NFL Player Convulsing After Brutal Hit Leaves Him with Brain Injury

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It goes without saying that real football (so not “futbol”) is an inherently dangerous sport.

Incredibly large human beings are moving at incredible speeds to physically dominate the opposition, and those humans are only getting bigger and faster.

Given that, football fans have grown somewhat accustomed to some genuinely gruesome injuries — you know, mangled fingers, broken arms and legs bending 90 degrees in the wrong direction.

But while the horrors of those aforementioned injuries are rather evident, a new type of less obvious injury is starting to become the primary concern of many football fans and prognosticators.

And those would be injuries to the noggin.

A relatively recent surge in studies into the effects of multiple, cumulative concussions on the human brain has found that there could very well be long-standing neurological damage — often labeled as chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

CTE is a degenerative brain disease that is attributed to frequent head trauma and is often linked to suicides, particularly among football players.

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