Feb 03, 2008 — See The Washington Post
Long after winning his Super Bowl ring, Dave Pear says his life is now a "torture chamber of pain." Can he and other injured retirees force the NFL to rethink its financial responsibilities to the generations that helped build the league? At 54, Pear shuffles like an ailing 80-year-old man ... A study from UNC's department of exercise and sport science that assessed 2,552 retired players determined that the players who had incurred at least three concussions were more than three times as likely to suffer from significant memory problems than those with no history of concussions.
