Concussion

476 00:40:50,281 --> 00:40:51,532 Yes, the other team. 477 00:40:51,699 --> 00:40:53,534 Do you even watch football? 478 00:40:53,701 --> 00:40:55,077 No, not at all. 479 00:40:55,161 --> 00:40:57,246 But I've been studying Mike Webster's position. 480 00:40:57,956 --> 00:41:02,626 The man in the middle is quite deceptively the most violent position on the field. 481 00:41:02,710 --> 00:41:04,837 The slaps, the punches, the forearm. 482 00:41:04,921 --> 00:41:08,173 It is an unremitting storm of sub-concussive blows. 483 00:41:08,299 --> 00:41:12,344 The head as a weapon on every single play of every single game... 484 00:41:12,428 --> 00:41:17,057 of every single practise, from the time he was a little boy to a college man, 485 00:41:17,225 --> 00:41:20,477 culminating in an 18-year professional career. 486 00:41:21,521 --> 00:41:23,272 By my calculations, 487 00:41:23,356 --> 00:41:28,986 Mike Webster sustained more than 70,000 blows to his head. 488 00:41:30,989 --> 00:41:33,365 Now, now, these men, these men, 489 00:41:33,950 --> 00:41:35,868 these are the fastest. 490 00:41:36,411 --> 00:41:40,664 Now, their speed multiplied by the speed of the men who hit them, 491 00:41:40,748 --> 00:41:42,332 the G-forces generated... 492 00:41:42,417 --> 00:41:46,128 equivalent to hitting them on the helmet with a sledgehammer. 493 00:41:47,130 --> 00:41:48,380 all of this... 494 00:41:49,007 --> 00:41:52,176 triggered a cascading series of neurological events... 495 00:41:52,260 --> 00:41:56,763 which unleashed killer proteins upon Mike Webster's brain, 496 00:41:57,682 --> 00:42:03,437 the tangles invading and strangling his mind from the inside out. 497 00:42:04,022 --> 00:42:07,941 Like pouring wet concrete down kitchen pipes. 498 00:42:08,401 --> 00:42:13,447 As it hardens, it chokes the brain, leaving him unrecognisable, 499 00:42:15,283 --> 00:42:16,909 even to himself. 500 00:42:18,411 --> 00:42:21,246 I don't know football. I've never played. 501 00:42:22,290 --> 00:42:27,669 But I am telling you that playing football killed Mike Webster. 502 00:42:29,255 --> 00:42:31,423 And I am certain that there are others. 503 00:42:31,716 --> 00:42:34,051 And how can you possibly know that? 504 00:42:34,427 --> 00:42:35,969 Common sense. 505 00:42:36,179 --> 00:42:39,598 But they are either dead or lost in the way that Mike Webster was lost. 506 00:42:39,682 --> 00:42:42,059 I'm not interested in common sense. 507 00:42:42,143 --> 00:42:44,228 I'm interested in science. 508 00:42:44,354 --> 00:42:46,021 And science is knowing. 509 00:42:46,314 --> 00:42:48,982 I know from these players' records... 510 00:42:49,067 --> 00:42:52,402 that their doctors believe they have early Alzheimer's, 511 00:42:52,487 --> 00:42:54,905 which is statistically impossible. 512 00:42:55,448 --> 00:42:57,115 They're too young. 513 00:42:57,992 --> 00:43:00,494 Because it's not Alzheimer's. 514 00:43:01,246 --> 00:43:02,537 It is this. 515 00:43:24,435 --> 00:43:26,019 I don't like it. 516 00:43:27,021 --> 00:43:28,063 No. 517 00:43:28,523 --> 00:43:30,357 No, actually, I hate it. 518 00:43:31,526 --> 00:43:33,360 But as a scientist, 519 00:43:35,780 --> 00:43:37,447 I can't deny it. 520 00:43:38,658 --> 00:43:41,618 Name it. You have to give this a name. 521 00:44:07,478 --> 00:44:09,855 I'm sorry. Did I wake you? 522 00:44:11,065 --> 00:44:14,526 Did they agree what it is? 523 00:44:16,321 --> 00:44:18,822 Yes. We are going to publish. 524 00:44:20,116 --> 00:44:21,283 They... 525 00:44:21,826 --> 00:44:23,535 - With you? - Yes. 526 00:44:24,329 --> 00:44:25,954 In a medical journal. 527 00:44:27,248 --> 00:44:28,248 With you? 528 00:44:29,125 --> 00:44:31,585 Yes, with me. Together. 529 00:44:32,128 --> 00:44:33,795 That's so... 530 00:44:36,507 --> 00:44:38,050 Congratulations. 531 00:44:38,968 --> 00:44:40,761 Thank you. Thank you. 532 00:44:44,766 --> 00:44:45,932 You... 533 00:44:46,893 --> 00:44:48,852 Are you going somewhere? 534 00:44:49,645 --> 00:44:50,771 Yes. 535 00:44:51,564 --> 00:44:52,856 With you. 536 00:44:54,067 --> 00:44:55,275 To celebrate. 537 00:45:11,918 --> 00:45:13,919 You don't dance, do you? 538 00:46:55,897 --> 00:46:59,733 I had quite a revelation tonight. 539 00:47:02,570 --> 00:47:04,905 This body was made for dancing. 540 00:47:05,615 --> 00:47:08,700 When they say "" dancing machine "," I am what they mean. 541 00:47:10,745 --> 00:47:13,538 I'm very proud of you. 542 00:47:17,919 --> 00:47:18,919 Okay. 543 00:47:43,819 --> 00:47:45,529 May I kiss you? 544 00:48:32,577 --> 00:48:34,369 - Good morning. - Cyril. 545 00:48:34,704 --> 00:48:37,706 It's very weird to bring women into the morgue at night. 546 00:48:37,873 --> 00:48:40,834 - She is a friend. - You don't have friends