Oct 28, 2009 — See The Washington Post (blog), CNN.com
The Congressional hearings on NFL brain injuries that begin today should be fascinating, gruesome, and possibly momentous. ...From 1966 through 2008, the annual average dropped to 9.4 direct deaths and rose slightly to 9.2 indirect ones. (These data are collected each year by the National Center for Catastrophic Injury Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.)
