There's more proof of how hazardous it might be to play a lot of football at a highly competitive level.
A new study of former Notre Dame players aged 59 to 75, has found that college football players are more likely to have brain issues, heart disease, and high cholesterol levels, compared to non-players.
The study states that college football players suffer an average of 600 head impacts per year and that helmets "do not prevent the brain from rapid acceleration-deceleration movements in the skull."
In fact, the researchers found out that athletes that played football from their younger years through college are five times more likely to have cognitive issues as they get later in their lives.
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