Ahman Green reveals that he has Parkinsons

litespeedhuskerfan

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Saw him play at Rosenblatt for the Nitehawks, Jeff Garcia was the QB. It was so cold the beer froze..

Hard to believe at 49.... my FIL is also battling this, but at gis age it makes more sense. 49 is prolly the earliest i've ever heard of somebody gerting that I think.
 
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Food supply is GMO, antibiotics in everything.. most farming = processed foods, reduction in actual beef production, all taken over by mega corporations coupled with big pharma and doctors pushing pills you don't need, that aren't safe, and then there is the microplastics problem where they say the average person has the equivalent of a plastic spoon in their brain. But nobody wants to complain about it or do anything.
 

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Terrible news, hope it can be managed so he has many, many years of quality life to go.

I believe he's still Green Bay's all time rushing leader.
 
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Food supply is GMO, antibiotics in everything.. most farming = processed foods, reduction in actual beef production, all taken over by mega corporations coupled with big pharma and doctors pushing pills you don't need, that aren't safe, and then there is the microplastics problem where they say the average person has the equivalent of a plastic spoon in their brain. But nobody wants to complain about it or do anything.
Couldn’t have been multiple concussions/CTE.
 
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dinglefritz

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Isn’t that what happened to Ali he got Parkinson’s from too many blows to the head?
Ahman played before concussion protocol was a thing. I was under the stands in north stadium when I saw him lower his head in to a 250 lb linebacker near the goal line. The backer had to be helped off the field. Ahman stayed down but his teammates picked him up before the trainers came out. He walked back to the sideline like a stumbling drunk. He was back on the field the next series. There is ZERO doubt that he’s had multiple traumatic brain injuries. Side note: Ali’s grandson was a friend of my daughter’s at Harvard. Nice kid.
 

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Food supply is GMO, antibiotics in everything.. most farming = processed foods, reduction in actual beef production, all taken over by mega corporations coupled with big pharma and doctors pushing pills you don't need, that aren't safe, and then there is the microplastics problem where they say the average person has the equivalent of a plastic spoon in their brain. But nobody wants to complain about it or do anything.
In the case of athletes like Ahman, taking all those hits to the head and body does not do the human body any good.
 
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Food supply is GMO, antibiotics in everything.. most farming = processed foods, reduction in actual beef production, all taken over by mega corporations coupled with big pharma and doctors pushing pills you don't need, that aren't safe, and then there is the microplastics problem where they say the average person has the equivalent of a plastic spoon in their brain. But nobody wants to complain about it or do anything.
Well that's just not true. Here you are on a football board complaining about it. Now what are YOU going to do about it?
 
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I remember watching him as a freshman and my jaw was on the FLOOR. Not only the speed, the moves, the power.... but his EXCITEMENT gave me goose bumps. He LOVED being a Husker, and his fist pumps, the guy was almost shaking he was so excited after a TD or big run. This guy was born to play at NU and he showed it.

I was surprised when I met him at the Fiesta Bowl he quiet he was. A true gentleman. My brother and his sons met up with him in Seattle after he got traded there and had him over for dinner. Our family loves this guy and it breaks my heart he has a difficult battle ahead of him like this.
 

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I remember watching him as a freshman and my jaw was on the FLOOR. Not only the speed, the moves, the power.... but his EXCITEMENT gave me goose bumps. He LOVED being a Husker, and his fist pumps, the guy was almost shaking he was so excited after a TD or big run. This guy was born to play at NU and he showed it.

I was surprised when I met him at the Fiesta Bowl he quiet he was. A true gentleman. My brother and his sons met up with him in Seattle after he got traded there and had him over for dinner. Our family loves this guy and it breaks my heart he has a difficult battle ahead of him like this.
He’s had a rough patch in his personal life that got glossed over in Green Bay but I think he’s a good human being. Thank God we aren’t judged by our worst moments and are extended grace by our Father.
 

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Food supply is GMO, antibiotics in everything.. most farming = processed foods, reduction in actual beef production, all taken over by mega corporations coupled with big pharma and doctors pushing pills you don't need, that aren't safe, and then there is the microplastics problem where they say the average person has the equivalent of a plastic spoon in their brain. But nobody wants to complain about it or do anything.
That's all stuff that affects the population overall. But there's a higher frequency of Parkinson's and ALS in people that played a lot of football especially at the highest levels. That's what I would suspect in this case.
 

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That's all stuff that affects the population overall. But there's a higher frequency of Parkinson's and ALS in people that played a lot of football especially at the highest levels. That's what I would suspect in this case.
Many of us ran through the fog from the city spraying DDT for mosquitoes when we were kids. Now we’re wondering why we see so many neurological diseases? 😏
 
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