"{\i1\cH80ffff}Ready." "hut!" "tempo." "Let's go." "let's go." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Reset." "boys." "let's change it." "wall right." "here we go." "Everybody up!" "{\i1\cH80ffff}Ready." "Set!" "hut!" "turn up!" "{\i1\cH80ffff}" " Think fast!" "There you go." " Just like this." "{\i1\cH80ffff}There you go." "Nice job." "Nice job." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Mike did." "Someone to help me with maximum protection." "Mike did." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Someone to help me call the play." "Mike did." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Someone to help me get the team in line." "Mike did it." "Mike ran it." "we leaned on him." "{\i1\cH80ffff}He was our strength in our offence." "{\i1\cH80ffff}I know this man." "I know his backside as well as anybody." "nothing has ever compared to Mike Webster." "Iron Mike" Webster!" "Mike!" "I'd like to begin... but I want to be truthful." "locally." "I want you to understand... the greatest thing that has happened to me... in my experience of professional football... is to have the opportunity to work with people with a common goal... and to sacrifice. obviously." "And it's not a lot of fun out there and banging heads." "It's not a natural thing." "I was scared I'd fail." "I'm still scared of that." "And all we have to do is finish the game." "we win." "Yeah." "why we would learn anything new from you." "do you have a medical degree?" "Yes." "From the University of Nigeria." "Nigeria." "And I did my residency... at Columbia University Medical School in New York." "I also have master's degrees in Public Health and Epidemiology." "I am a certified physician executive... with a specialty in Emergency Medicine." "I'm board-certified..." "Clinical Pathology and Anatomic Pathology." "the examination of the brain." " While working as a Medical..." " I'm sorry." "So sorry." "I'm sorry." "I'm also completing my MBA at Carnegie Mellon University. a master's degree in the Theory of Music from the Royal School of Music in London." "what can I add?" "My specialty is the science of death." "I think more about why people die than I do the way people live." "Hands of the deceased." "Broken and dislodged fingernails." "The hands of a woman who fought wildly for her life and lost." "Thomas Chambers." "the blood of the victim." "doesn't that suggest that the state has the right man?" "until I heard hour 217 of Mr Chambers' police interview." ""I hate blood."" ""I had a tooth pulled as a child once and it would not stop bleeding."" "I got curious." " What about?" "Hands." "I could not reconcile these conflicting sets of hands." "and I'm trying to figure out... if Thomas Chambers' family has a history of haemophilia." "I asked his father and his father said no. so rare that it is never tested for." "Mr Chambers tested positive for haemophilia A." "as he claims. he would have bled to death. you will be killing an innocent man." "{\i1\cH00ffff}Happy birthday to..." "Joe." "Dr Omalu." " Here are the cases for today." " Okay." "This is from yesterday." "we got a full room today." " Cycle 'em through." " Yes." "Let's begin with Rachel Green." "I need your help." "We are in this together." "Please help me find out what happened to you." "Here we go." "come on." "Gracie." "Dr Omalu uses different stuff." "Makes less of a mess. leading to narcotics abuse and overdose." "Bennet!" "I know why she died." "Danny." "I may be rushing through your autopsy." "Dr Omalu is here to see you." "don't you?" "Yes." "Because I remind you of you." "Only less handsome." "Sit." "What the hell is going on down there?" "Nothing." "I'm doing my work." "I'm fine." "You're not fine." "Danny hates your guts." "I've never seen anything like it." "I think you're working a little too slow." "I'm a doctor." "The dead are my patients." "I treat them with respect." "But do you have to talk to them?" "talk to them in your head." "And we discussed the knives." "You're still throwing them away." "We're a public agency in Pittsburgh." "They're expensive." "Reuse them." "Would you want me to cut open your mother... with the same knife I used on a serial killer?" "Yes." "I'd probably request it." "Cyril." "You need a girlfriend." "You need to touch somebody alive every once in a while." "Living women are... they're amazing." "Give it a try." "Okay." "Just be a little less of an artist." " Fit in a little more." " Yes." "It's another death row case." "The guy's being railroaded." "000 for you." "Cyril." "{\b1\cHc0c0c0}FarangSiam thanks you." "Have Fun!" "Webby." "man." "I am loving the digs." "Mike." "It's Justin." " I'll just sit with you for a minute." " Yeah." "Jugger." "man." "Mike?" "Mike!" "Mike!" "no!" "It's all right." "It's just..." "I just..." "I don't want to go to sleep." "Mike." "Mike." "hey." "Pam's your wife." "yeah." "I'm starting to forget things." "I'm saying this crazy crap to my kids." "I nearly pushed Keana into a wall." "don't..." "Just don't give up." "all we got to do is finish the game." "We'll all be winners." "Okay?" "{\i1\cH80ffff}♪ To the upright I will show ♪" "{\i1\cH80ffff}♪ The saving power of God ♪" "{\i1\cH80ffff}♪ The saving power of God ♪" "{\i1\cH80ffff}♪ To the upright ♪" "{\i1\cH80ffff}♪ I will show ♪" "{\i1\cH80ffff}♪ The saving power of God ♪" "{\i1\cH80ffff}♪ How great ♪" "{\i1\cH80ffff}♪ How great ♪" "{\i1\cH80ffff}♪ Is our God ♪" "{\i1\cH80ffff}♪ How great ♪" "{\i1\cH80ffff}♪ How great ♪" "{\i1\cH80ffff}♪ Is our God ♪" " Have a good day." "It's good to see you." " Bennet!" "A moment?" "Father." " How are you?" " We have a new member." "A young lady from Kenya." "She came to us a couple weeks ago and she needs our help." "Father?" "Bennet." "Until we find her something permanent." "I'm working on my MBA." "I'm studying." "everywhere." "She's a nice girl." "She's from Nairobi." "Went to British school." "She wants to work." "We're letting her tidy up around the church." "We're asking you because we know she'll be safe and cared for." "Father." "Who is she?" "So..." "You can see." "there." "Is that your father?" "Yes." "The chief." "Those are my peaches." "They should not be here." "Your room." "Your room." "There is a..." "I have it for you." "How are you for money?" "I have some." "No..." "Need is not weak." "Need is need." "I know where you are." "I was you." "You're in America now." "you have to be the best version of yourself." "you pick something and fake it." "I will just... for you." "What did you pick?" " What did I pick?" " To fake." "I picked an older bald-headed white man." "Why an older bald-headed white man?" "Because he is the best at what he does." "Do you want to see your room?" "I was a registered nurse at the Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi." "I understand." "I meant no offence." "Hey!" "wake up!" "you." "now." "This ain't no hotel." "You can't sleep here." "let's go!" "Wait." "right?" "Iron Mike." "{\i1\cH00ffff}I called for him." "He's coming." "but I don't see him." "come on." "come on." "What?" "What is..." "Look at that." "he's here." "Mike." "can you hear me?" "yeah." "You just... because I am..." "I am freaking overwhelmed." "Mike." "What are you taking right now?" "The Ritalin." "you're still taking all of those?" "yeah." "okay?" "And superglue." "superglue." "3.5 Haldol." "You call his wife." "You tell her he's worse." "He's a lot worse." "right?" "I was the team doctor." "the team doctor!" "all right?" "The team doctor!" "all right?" " I am gonna help you." " You are not helping me." "You got to fix this!" "You got to fix this!" "all right?" "all right?" "And in here." "I am dying in here!" "all right?" " Dr Bailes." "Mike." "It's okay." "Mike." "don't you?" "all right?" "I just want you to help me." "Mike." " Just help me." "Just..." " Come and sit down." " Okay." "Come and sit down." "give me the drugs." "Show me how you're gonna help me." "Mike." "Mike." "Mike." "Mike." "What am I missing?" " Tumour?" " No." "all of his scans were clean." "the dauntless Webster slipped into financial chaos and homelessness." "{\i1\cH80ffff}This is a hard day for the city of Pittsburgh." "{\i1\cH80ffff}I can remember sitting down with my father... {\i1\cH80ffff}and him giving me examples of hard work ethic... you get back up again." "I don't usually watch TV." "Then why do you have one?" "One has a TV in this country." "I don't usually eat breakfast." "One should eat breakfast in this country. thank You for the gifts You have so graciously bestowed upon us." "Please help us to continue to be deservant of Your blessings." "Amen." "Bennet!" "Iron Mike Webster..." " What is going on?" " Mike Webster." "Who's Mike Webster?" "He's the greatest centre to ever play the game." "He's a true warrior." " I'm sorry." "What is a centre?" " The big guy in the middle." "Hikes it." "My kid plays football because of this guy." "I'm sorry." "I just did not know who he was. football is a good thing." "I freaking can't believe it's you." "I was put on the schedule for this weekend." "I am put on the schedule for every weekend." "Come on." "Come on." "The whole town was out of work." "He was a guy who gave us hope when there really was no hope." "Just leave him be." "Look at his teeth." "He was pulling them out and supergluing them back in." "please." "man." "There's no need to cut this man's body." "Why does an apparently healthy favourite son of this city... become self-mutilating and homeless at 50?" "but not why." "please." " Yes." "you just..." "You're asked to leave it alone." "But sometimes you can't." "Do you believe that he thinks this is a time that I should leave it alone?" "I don't." "I never leave it alone." "That's why people hate me." "Mike." "People are saying bad things about you." "I can tell something is wrong." "But I can't do this alone." "I need your help to tell the world what happened to you." "Sorry." "Regular folds of gray matter." "No obvious contusions." "No shrinkage from Alzheimer's." "What's wrong?" "please?" " How old are these?" " Six months." "Six months." "This brain should be a mess." "But it looks completely normal." "voices in his head." "No documented concussions." "He did complain of dizziness." " Yes." "How often?" " Once." "In 18 years of professional football?" "{\i1\cH00ff80}"Joseph Maroon."" "Sign the certificate." "Sew him up." "please." "You know we don't have the budget to do that." "People do not go mad for no reason." "I'm going to continue looking." "you're not going to." "you are out of line." "you do not speak to me like that!" "I am the pathologist on duty!" " I am the pathologist of record!" " Hey!" "Listen!" "This is not your laboratory!" "I am wrong!" "me!" "Fix that brain." "I am gonna make sure they don't pay for any of this." "I am going to write my orders for the tests that I need." "Danny." "exit my workplace." "Please!" "I've never requested a panel of tests like this." "What are you looking for?" "There is not a single case in a book or in life... where a man that healthy went that mad that young with no visible abnormality of the brain." "I don't know what I'm looking for." "I can tell." "It's going to cost you a fortune." "I understand." "Okay." "just make sure we both come out okay." "Dr Omalu." "You got something today." "Left it on your desk." "Thank you." "Prema!" "It's very late." "Where have you been?" "I got a job." "a shift." "At a home." "Feeding old people." "That is fantastic." "Congratulations." "What is that?" "Mike Webster." "000." "And here we go." "Would you like me to get you a TV for your room?" "No." "This one will be fine." "Okay." "I can't tell what you're more afraid of." "or what you won't." "My God." "My God." "{\i1\cH80ffff}...jacked up from those guys that are gonna be racing those sides on this." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Let's get to Jacked Up Number 5." "{\i1\cH80ffff}We're gonna begin with the Rams and the Chargers." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Mark Bulger gonna be delivering the ball to Tony Fisher." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Throws it down around his feet." "Donnie Edwards is gonna level him right there." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Always be looking out for the big hit right there." "{\i1\cH80ffff}" " Tony Fisher got jacked up!" " Jacked up!" "the Seahawks and the Chiefs." "{\i1\cH80ffff}D.J. Hackett is gonna make the catch and Ty Law will launch him backwards." "{\i1\cH80ffff}How far backwards?" "{\i1\cH00ffff}Eyes on me!" "Eyes on me!" "Gentlemen!" "{\i1\cH00ffff}This is a game of awareness." "It is a game of desire." "That's why we have the three-whistle drill." "Let's go!" "you seek out a teammate." "Any teammate." "you be violent!" "let's go!" "Bring it in!" "you grab him by the throat and you squeeze!" "You choke him until shit runs down his leg!" "Do you understand me?" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Drive!" "Drive!" "Hit him!" "Hit it!" "Drive!" "Drive!" "{\i1\cH80ffff}The Jaguars and the Eagles." "Dirk Johnson." "{\i1\cH80ffff}And I'm gonna wait for this because the look on his face... {\i1\cH80ffff}- tells you that he got jacked up!" " Jacked up!" "{\i1\cH80ffff}and Shawntae Spencer lifts him off his feet!" "my God!" "And Jon Kitna got jacked up!" " Jacked up!" "Bennet." "It's actually really beautiful." "he's got it!" "Touchdown!" "{\i1\cH80ffff}Tremendous!" "Tremendous catch!" "I want to show you something." "A human brain... sits in a fluid completely disconnected from the human skull." "will you relax?" "I can hear you breathing." "This is a really terrible brain." "Ever met the great Dekosky before?" "tops." "Is that him?" "you're our prize graduate." "Tell him." "It's Mike Webster." " The Pittsburgh..." " I know who Mike Webster is." "Steve." "He was 50." "You have my attention." "The Cape gannet. turning itself into a missile as it collides with the face of the sea. 85 million times over its lifetime." "Bighorn sheep can generate..." "Bennet." "okay." "all of these animals have shock absorbers built into their bodies. encircling the entire cranium." "It is the anatomical equivalent of a safety belt for its brain." "Human beings?" "Not a single piece of our anatomy protects us from those types of collisions." "A human being will get concussed at 60 G's." "A common head-to-head contact on a football field?" "One hundred G's." "God did not intend for us to play football." "Let's keep God out of this." "Okay." "Okay." "Look." " What are the S's?" " The Steelers." "obviously." "the other team." "Do you even watch football?" "not at all." "But I've been studying Mike Webster's position." "The man in the middle is quite deceptively the most violent position on the field." "the forearm." "It is an unremitting storm of sub-concussive blows." "The head as a weapon on every single play of every single game... culminating in an 18-year professional career. 000 blows to his head. these are the fastest. the G-forces generated... equivalent to hitting them on the helmet with a sledgehammer." "all of this... triggered a cascading series of neurological events... the tangles invading and strangling his mind from the inside out." "Like pouring wet concrete down kitchen pipes. even to himself." "I don't know football." "I've never played." "But I am telling you that playing football killed Mike Webster." "And I am certain that there are others." "And how can you possibly know that?" "Common sense." "But they are either dead or lost in the way that Mike Webster was lost." "I'm not interested in common sense." "I'm interested in science." "And science is knowing." "I know from these players' records... which is statistically impossible." "They're too young." "Because it's not Alzheimer's." "It is this." "I don't like it." "No." "I hate it." "I can't deny it." "Name it." "You have to give this a name." "I'm sorry." "Did I wake you?" "Did they agree what it is?" "Yes." "We are going to publish." "They..." " With you?" " Yes." "In a medical journal." "With you?" "with me." "Together." "That's so..." "Congratulations." "Thank you." "Thank you." "You..." "Are you going somewhere?" "Yes." "With you." "To celebrate." "do you?" "I had quite a revelation tonight." "This body was made for dancing." "I am what they mean." "I'm very proud of you." "Okay." "May I kiss you?" " Good morning." " Cyril." "It's very weird to bring women into the morgue at night." " She is a friend." " You don't have friends." "Danny knows she's been in there." "He's thinking about filing a formal complaint." "What?" "I was working on Webster." "I know." "I'll take care of it." "How much has that cost you so far?" "000." " Twenty?" "I save." " Everything." " Really?" "How un-American." "maybe it was worth it." "I got the call." "Chronic traumatic encephalopathy." "doesn't it?" "Yes." "CTE." "what happens now?" "We publish." "Dekosky is going to coauthor." " Dekosky?" " Yes." "Dekosky and Cyril Wecht." "I'm very proud of you." "Thank you." "even in the rain." "Here you go." "baby!" "get it!" "{\i1\cH80ffff}And watch the play-action." "The safeties jump up." "{\i1\cH80ffff}And look at that touch by Ben Roethlisberger." "{\i1\cH80ffff}And Plaxico Burress does a great job." "Looked like he tripped... {\i1\cH80ffff}You may not!" "but he does." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Roethlisberger scrambling out of the pocket." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Throwing across the middle!" "Caught!" "{\i1\cH80ffff}Burress at the 45!" "Plaxico!" "{\i1\cH80ffff}Yeah." "That was a pressure toss by the rook." " I'm hearing voices." " Are you serious?" "stop." "You're scaring me." "You're scaring them." "Look at me!" "They're telling me to kill you." "They're telling me to kill you!" "Get out!" "Get out!" "Get out!" "{\i1\cH00ffff}No!" "black pickup spotted on thruway eight miles..." "I see him." "Just passing me." "Where am I?" "{\i1\cH80ffff}Reportedly driving into opposite traffic last 10 miles." "my God." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Pickup has collided." "{\i1\cH80ffff}all units." "Reported collision." "{\i1\cH80ffff}A few months after Steeler favourite Justin Strzelczyk" "{\i1\cH80ffff}has apparently committed suicide at the age of 45." "Terry." "You wonder where they are now?" "Now we know." "Pittsburgh Steelers." "I guess these guys only die when you're working." " What other problems did he have?" " Arrested a few times." "federal theft." "Arrested a lot." "I need a full autopsy." "too?" "too." "Joseph Maroon." "This is my dream." "The schools are good." "Prema." "I'm sure you see good in me." "I see all that you are." "I want to marry you." "We can fall in love." "I will marry you." "because I already made the down payment." "I saved all my money and I bought this for you." "Get me Elliot Pellman." "{\i1\cH00ffff}I have Chris Jones for you." "I'm just looking at it." "Anything to be concerned about?" "he's a coroner in Pittsburgh." "but let me get into it." "all right." " Hello?" "{\i1\cH00ffff}" " Is Bennet Omalu there?" "he is." "Yes." "{\i1\cH00ffff}I'm a neurologist who's worked around football for years." "{\i1\cH00ffff}Very familiar with the NFL's concussion research." "{\i1\cH00ffff}And the League concluded unequivocally... {\i1\cH00ffff}that football players do not get brain damage." "Mr Omalu." "Dr Omalu." "whatever." "You're an uneducated quack and your career is over." "{\i1\cH00ffff}They said you were uneducated?" "{\i1\cH00ffff}Did they even read your résumé?" "too." "the National football League owns neuroscience." "Who knew?" ""Failure to find."" ""Absence of clinical information."" " What do they want?" " Your head on a spike." "They want you to retract your findings." "They want you to say you made it all up." " I made it up?" " They're accusing you of fraud." "you'll be fine." "This all goes away." "Why..." "Why are they doing this?" "They're terrified of you." "What did you think they were gonna say?" ""Thank you"?" "Yes." " What the hell for?" " For being told." "For knowing." "I understand." "You think you're being a good American." "the city of Pittsburgh spent $233 million... to build their glorious Steelers a new stadium." "they were closing schools and raising taxes." "These people are not out to change the world." "And this is not some quaint academic discovery... stuck in the back of an obscure medical journal." "Bennet Omalu is going to war with a corporation... the same way they crave food." "The NFL owns a day of the week." "The same day the church used to own." "Now it's theirs." "They're very big." "Terry Long." "The tests came back positive." "and CTE told his brain... and he died." "I told you there would be more." "You have done great work." "No one would blame you if you stopped now." "No one is stopping anything." "Then I'd be lying if I didn't tell you how important your next move is. his brain had been consumed by chronic traumatic encephalopathy. that a large percentage... of professional football players have and will die from CTE." "who today... threw down the gauntlet at the feet of the National football League." "Thank you." "What do you think?" "I think you're gonna be an American hero." " I'm not even an American." " That's even better." "That's so fucking American." "who is also vice-chairman of the neurosurgery department..."" ""said of Omalu's CTE diagnosis that it was fallacious reasoning."" "Yes." "is this Bennet Omalu?" "Dr Bennet Omalu." "{\i1\cH00ffff}You want to pussify this country?" "You want to vaginise football?" "{\i1\cH00ffff}Get the hell out." "Or they'll be doing your autopsy." "{\i1\cH00ffff}Dr Omalu?" "Yes." "{\i1\cH00ffff}I took you to be an early riser." "I didn't want to call you at your office." "{\i1\cH00ffff}This is Julian Bailes." "{\i1\cH00ffff}Do you know who I am?" "I know who you are." "Mike Webster was a personal friend." "Was he?" "{\i1\cH00ffff}Dr Omalu." "but you're not wrong." "I'd like to talk with you." "The NFL has known about this concussion crisis for years." "And what you have there is the research... that forms the basis for the League's concussion guidelines. some academics put helmets on monkeys and shook them real hard." "They threw dogs and pigs and human cadavers down elevator shafts." "Helmets on crash-test dummies and bashed them together." "And their conclusion?" ""No striking player experienced neck injury or concussion."" "a concussion's no more dangerous than a hangnail." "no." "The NFL did what every organisation does." "They put together a commission to study the study." "Dr Elliot Pellman's Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee." "You know who else was on that committee?" "he was on there. guys who tape knees for a living." "I mean..." "Dr Bailes?" "I'm not with the Steelers any more." "I'm not with the NFL. have died in the last few years?" "And I'm not talking about the older guys." "and just the ones that I know about." "Twelve." "And I don't want to see... any more of these men vanish in the back of a pickup truck." "I know them." "I was them." "And I think you're doing this wrong." "nothing changes." "It's only true if they say it's true." "And they've got to say it out loud." "Get me a meeting with the Commissioner." "face to face." "I will make him say it out loud." "They don't want to talk to you." "football does not want to talk to you." "God is number one and football is number two."" "to them you're not even American." "You're not even African-American." "You're..." "A doctor?" "Okay." "Look." "The League has kept everyone in the dark." "And you turned on the lights and gave their biggest boogeyman a name." "that's nothing." "I've done my own research on this NFL Brain Injury Committee." "You know what Dr Elliot Pellman is?" "He's a rheumatologist." "He's a specialist in arthritis and joint pain." "Can you tell me what a rheumatologist knows about the brain and brain disease?" "usually go to Harvard or Yale." "He went to medical school in Guadalajara." " Mexico?" " Yes." "I did not know that." "That's beautiful." "two cases does not meet the scientific burden of proof." "You have to keep going." "this does not show up on a CT scan." "Which means there's no diagnosis before death." "more have to die." "that's already happening." "{\i1\cH00ffff}Double D." "Did I hear right?" "We're losing you?" "Tapping you for mayor of Chicago?" "my friend." "all in one lifetime. who has figured it out." " Dave!" " Yeah." "man." "Andre Waters." "man?" "let me walk with you." "not good." "It's in the paperwork." "man?" "There are five other trustees." "You talk to them?" "man." "You the only one who knows what it is to be us." "man." "hitmen." "File the appeal." "man." "I can't sleep." "Okay... my eyes get crossed." "It just weirds me out." " Hey!" "Look at me!" " Jesus!" "Look." "Twelve years I paid my dues." "I made millions for those assholes." "man." "I'm just asking back what I gave!" "Listen." "Fat?" "Stop eating like a pig." "Got a headache?" "See a doctor." "I've seen 20 doctors!" "I just need rent money." "Get your shit together!" "You used to be a warrior." " You fucking sellout." " Get your hands off me!" "I'm sorry." "hey." "Remember when we were kids?" "Remember when we were kids?" "Playing's what we lived for." "Dave." "help me!" ""notorious for his aggressive style of play"" ""and devastating hits that filled highlight reels."" ""Waters died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head."" ""He was 44."" "{\i1\cH00ffff}And this is the part where he got knocked out." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Andre Waters has it." "We'll be back..." "He said he was all right." "but he said he was all right." "You look well." " How are the kids?" " Kids are fine." "I'm fine." "I'm sorry I couldn't make it to the funeral." "No one made it to the funeral." "He was the sun." "We was the planets. "I'm ready to go."" "Because he knew people was thinking he was crazy." "Not crazy." "He'd already become someone else." "You definitely think he had this disease?" "Because I want to believe that." "yes." "And now you want what's left of my boy." "You heard about Mike Webster?" "And Terry Long and..." "And..." "And who else?" "Julian?" "Dr Julian Bailes." "Pleasure to meet you." "Andre Waters." "Justin Strzelczyk." "I just kept sending them back out there." "What the hell were you thinking?" "You've got to be a part of it." "You've got to be on the sidelines with them to understand. to keep the whole thing going." "Zoloft." "Have I left anything out?" "It's tyres and oil." "Just mechanics trying to keep the cars on the racetrack." "it's not medicine." "I don't know what it is." "It's business." "okay." "Three cases is the scientific burden of evidence." "We have four." "That is far beyond anything the NFL can or cannot deny." "This is bigger than they are." "They have to listen to us now." "Dr Maroon." " Would you like a drink?" " I said five minutes." "He doesn't want a drink." "Your conclusions totally misrepresent the facts." "To say that Webster and Long and Waters were killed by football is... ls fallacious reasoning." "I know." "Where's he going with this?" "Just hear him out." "controlled study... of former and current NFL football players." "We will bring together the greatest minds in America to solve the problem." "We should be working together." "Who do you think you're talking to?" "Excuse me?" "I was the President of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons." "And I was the man who performed the autopsies..." "Terry Long." "Your men." "Men under your care." "Do you know what Mike Webster's wife said? she would have done more for him." "But he died in disgrace." "Your man." "Your man." "You took an oath." " Tell the truth." " The truth?" " Tell the truth!" " The truth is... my friend." "We employ hundreds of thousands of people." "We send thousands and thousands of poor kids to school." "The ownership of this football club... has donated millions of dollars to countless charities." " Do you want me to go on?" " That won't be necessary." "It is necessary." "football is the most popular sport in America... because it is so goddamn fantastic!" "right there?" "That is the beating heart of this city." "end it?" "You want to fold up the National football League?" "I want to solve the problem." "Who are you?" " What are you asking?" " You're a pathologist." "You perform autopsies." "I am a mere pathologist." "That's it." "That's all I am." "Wow." "Do you have any idea of the impact of what you're doing?" "I do." " Do you understand the impact of what you are doing?" "If just 10% of the mothers in America... that is it." "It is the end of football." "the professional game." "he does autopsies." "He's not in the outcome business." "He has no business. - who ignore science?" " Wow." "I am not done!" "History laughs." "the world will deny my work. their families left in ruins." "Tell the truth." "Tell the truth." "You sure..." "You sure you want to do this?" "Dr Maroon." "I'll get back to you." "that went well. heaven was here and America was here." "it was the place where God sent all of His favourite people." "you could do anything." "Americans were the manifestation of what God wanted us all to be." "I have never wanted anything... as much as I wanted to be accepted as an American." "But Mike Webster goes mad and nobody asks why." "They make fun of him." "They insult him on TV." "And now they want to pretend that his disease does not exist." "And they want to bury me." "It's offensive." "I am offended." "I am the wrong person to have discovered this." "There is no coincidence in this world. ended up here in this rusty place for you alone to be the one to see this? I was attacked." "What happened?" "Something that is better left unsaid." "But that man almost broke me." "I wanted to give up and go back." "But I knew God." "I decided to trust His wisdom and I stayed. an Omalu Onyemalukwube. "you must come forth and speak."" "How did you know that?" "I called your father." "He was pleased to hear from me." "I am sure he was." "who will?" "Bennet. the thing you are told you cannot do is the thing you must do." "Embrace that... and nothing created by man can bring you down." "{\i1\cH00ffff}Omalu's gone to the press now." "Listen to this." ""After examining the remains..."" "is claiming..."" "and he says..."" ""that led to his depression and ultimate death."" "It gets worse." "medical director..."" ""for the Centre for the Study of Retired Athletes..."" "I'm not shocked."'" "There's more Omalu and more Bailes." "Bailes." "Why do I know that name?" "Steelers team doctor." "Neurologist for the Players Association." "wow." "The Times is calling it a potential epidemic." "Paul." "not Science." "front page New York Times." "the Commissioner... {\i1\cH80ffff}has been yearning for years to go back to his litigator roots." "Roger Goodell... {\i1\cH80ffff}There's a new sheriff in town." "His name is Roger Goodell." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Each day seems to bring a fresh round of tributes." "{\i1\cH80ffff}What I'm here to do now is protect the shield." "{\i1\cH80ffff}The NFL isn't just a sports league." "{\i1\cH80ffff}It's an entertainment product." "{\i1\cH80ffff}America's game." "{\i1\cH80ffff}I want us to go on enjoying our great game..." "Allegheny County Coroner." "one second." "yeah." "Here he is." "Julian." "I'm watching." "{\i1\cH00ffff}You asked for a face-to-face with the Commissioner?" "Man to man?" "{\i1\cH00ffff}Goodell and the NFL are asking for a concussion summit." "{\i1\cH00ffff}A full presentation in Chicago next week." "{\i1\cH00ffff}They heard you." "{\i1\cH00ffff}You have your shot." "Julian." "Why don't you throw in some football stuff?" "Some non-medical terms?" "Things we'd say." "Why do I need to say things they'd say?" "I thought I was here for the other reason." "No." "eight degrees?" "You're one of the smartest people they'll ever meet." "You know what?" "You're gonna be fine." "How about you?" "How will you be?" "violent game and then it's Shakespeare." "to me it's like life that way." "And I know you can't see how exciting... and I don't blame you." "But what I'm trying to tell you is this is not fun for me." "I know them personally." "And that feeling you have... when someone you love and admire screws you over?" "They're going to have that feeling." "Because of me." "And there is not a damn thing I can do about it." "Hey." "We have to talk." "What's wrong?" "so I'm just going to say it." "They're not gonna let you speak." "What?" "They don't even want you in the room." "They want me to do it." " One of their own." " One of their own." "that's right." "Okay." "Yeah." " They still have to sit and listen." " To you." "Yes." "You blew up their whole world." "Julian." "Yes." "Mine." "Because how can it be possible that some African voodoo doctor could understand this subject better than them?" "Or even better than you?" "Wait a second." "You think this is about Bennet Omalu?" "I'm not here because of you." "I'm here because people are dying." "You are here for redemption." "You are here to use me to cleanse your sins." "You self-righteous bastard." "how much I could have... if I went back to my side of the ball and just kept my mouth shut?" "except one." "Science." "here I am." "beside you." "Not down there in that audience with them." "What more can I do to prove myself to you?" "I am sorry." "Julian." "my father can't remember a goddamn thing." "He never played a day of football." "you quack!" "I beg your pardon?" "go back to Africa." "And get away from our game!" "What happened?" "Roger Goodell just said that..." "Justin Strzelczyk may have gotten his concussion swimming." "In a swimming pool." "That's insanity." "This whole thing was staged." "They needed to say that they heard us so they could goddamn bury us." "The science means nothing to them." "{\i1\cH00ffff}This is an important day in the National football League." "{\i1\cH00ffff}We've had some very good dialogue... {\i1\cH00ffff}which will help us improve the care for our players." "{\i1\cH00ffff}What do you think when you hear... {\i1\cH00ffff}about former NFL players suffering from symptoms... {\i1\cH00ffff}that has only been seen in boxers and people at over 80 years old?" "what does that say about the effect of concussions on players?" "but you have to look at their entire medical history." "This is an evolving science." "And that's okay." "{\i1\cH00ffff}no empirically determined proof was presented today." "Because there simply isn't any." "{\i1\cH80ffff}including some who were actually knocked out cold." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Ira Casson was head of the team of NFL doctors... {\i1\cH80ffff}who had looked into the issue... {\i1\cH80ffff}and determined that the concern over head injuries was overblown." "{\i1\cH80ffff}that links multiple head injuries among pro football players with depression?" "{\i1\cH80ffff}No." "{\i1\cH80ffff}" " With dementia?" " No." "{\i1\cH80ffff}With early onset of Alzheimer's?" "{\i1\cH80ffff}No." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Is there any evidence as of today that links... {\i1\cH80ffff}multiple head injuries with any long-term problem like that?" "{\i1\cH80ffff}" " In NFL players?" " Yeah." " No." "little one." "This is your father." "I am in deep shit. but I am being punished." "It might not be so nice when you get out here." "You are still with God." "Please ask Him to help me." "It's all right." "It's okay." " What is this?" " This is the FBI." "I'm being relieved of my duties." "What?" "I don't understand." "including..." "Tex." "Let me at least have the joy of telling him. arising out of... my use of government resources to advance my private practise. misuse of office stationery and my personal use of the fax machine." " Faxes?" " Yeah." "They could not come up with something this stupid in Nigeria." "This man has been a public servant for decades." "Cyril." "Have you ever performed any private services on county time?" "Have I?" "we've both hurt the government's feelings." "Are you referring to the death row case where I used my personal time?" "but we can have you." " And what does that mean?" " That means they want your testimony." " Against you?" " Yes." "I understand." "You are attacking him to get to me." "I know." "This is because his name is on my research." "What research is that?" "No." "I will resign first." "your immigration status will be revised... since your status requires full-time employment." "Then I will get another job in another city." "That would be fine." "That would be fine." "{\i1\cH00ffff}Bennet." "we both came out okay." "Not professional ruination." "Whoever... you know that." "What if they show up here with a warrant?" "On suspicion of what?" "Science?" "Suspicion of bullshit." "We got screwed." "You didn't deserve it." "You know the worst part?" "How easy it was." "they are not going to make me say one word against you." "What are you gonna say?" "Cyril Wecht's a loudmouth asshole?" "I don't care." "I'm tired." "My balls are low." "I didn't do good enough by you." "Cyril." "I cannot go back to Nigeria." "Everything that I am is here." "My child has got to be born in America." "Don't worry." "I'll get you a job." "you can work with me in the prison laundry." "Call the surgeon." "We need a goddamn drink." "I solved the problem. "The Surgeon General has determined that..."" ""playing football is hazardous to your health."" "You got to put it on both sides of the helmet. did you know that Paul was a partner in Covington and Burling?" "Which is the same law firm... that represented the big seven tobacco companies." "Of course he was." "But now they're representing the National football League." "Of course they do. we moved a game from a Sunday to a Tuesday because of a blizzard." "And the League said that they weren't concerned about the ratings... because the League was immune from acts of God." "Bennet!" "Bennet!" "I'm so sorry." "There's no heartbeat." "please?" "Excuse us." "Thank you." "I'm so sorry." "I'm so sorry." "I made a mistake." "This is my fault." "E.R. med one." "I wish I had never met Mike Webster." "They destroyed us." "And I don't understand why it is happening this way." "listen to me." "Do you know what I chose to fake?" "You." "We will have this family." "Yes." "We will." "Just not here." "We have to go." "Hello?" "Mr Omalu?" "Dr Omalu." "I just need the measurements for the flat screens." "That won't be necessary." "Jose." "Tell me." "It's going to be okay." "Listen." "My mind keeps slipping." "I can't seem to find the goddamn words no more." "What?" "yeah." "I just can't do this." "And I'm sorry." "Yes." "it's Julian." "Dave Duerson killed himself today." "Shot himself in the chest." "In the heart." "hold on." " My God." "{\i1\cH00ffff}" " He left a note." "{\i1\cH00ffff}He wants his brain to be donated." "To be examined." "They said that we were right." "you there?" "I'm here." "{\i1\cH00ffff}A Pro Bowler in that deep with NFL leadership... they can't explain this one away." "{\i1\cH00ffff}Players are gonna want to hear from you now." "Trying to find the..." "I don't know what to say to them." "Tell them what's really happening." "Hello." "A small boy came to me... why do you hate football?"" ""I don't hate football."" "my father said you hate football."" ""You tell your father to come see me."" "My wife watches the games." "And she will scream and she will jump." "She startles me a lot." "I can see the beauty... the power." "I said to her that I wished I'd never met Mike Webster." "But that was before I knew him." "He has given me a great gift." "A dangerous gift." "The gift of knowing." "he knows what is at risk." "He may be injured or even killed." "he knows he may break his arm or his leg." "He doesn't know that he can lose his mind." "his money." "His life." "They have to know." "Mike Webster." "Justin Strzelczyk." "Terry Long." "Andre Waters." "Dave Duerson." "they speak for the living." "And I speak for them." "That is all I do." "Forgive them." "Forgive yourselves." "Be at peace." "is there a link between... {\i1\cH80ffff}playing professional football and the likelihood... {\i1\cH80ffff}of contracting a brain-related injury... depression or CTE?" "{\i1\cH80ffff}We're doing everything we possibly can for our players now." "{\i1\cH80ffff}I just asked you a simple question." "What's the answer?" "there's no link"..." "{\i1\cH80ffff}"or ill health effects."" "And they were forced to admit that that was incorrect... {\i1\cH80ffff}through a spate of litigation in the 1990s." "{\i1\cH80ffff}And my question to you is... {\i1\cH80ffff}We have heard from the NFL time and time again." "you're "hopeful."" "Son of a bitch." "{\i1\cH80ffff}I want to know what are you doing in the negotiations that are going on now... {\i1\cH80ffff}to deal with this problem and the other problems related to the injuries..." "{\i1\cH80ffff}that football players obtain and its impact on their health." "You did all this." "{\i1\cH80ffff}but let me just say this to Mr Goodell and everybody who's here today... {\i1\cH80ffff}that I think it's time for the Congress of the United States to take a look." "{\i1\cH00ffff}" " First time in Washington?" " Yes." "{\i1\cH00ffff}We're thrilled you accepted our invitation." "I was very curious. means you would also consult with the CIA and FBI... and any foreign government... requesting the assistance of the United States government." "you're America's forensic pathologist." "Wouldn't have to put on scrubs or perform an autopsy." "You're beyond all that now." "Would you like to hear about the benefits package?" "No." "I'm sure it's fine." "Dr Omalu." "You exemplify everything it is to be an American." "in the nation's capital." "Why don't you take a couple days and think about it?" "{\i1\cH00ffff}Ready." "{\i1\cH00ffff}Hut!" "get up field!" "let's go!" "on the ball." "huddle up." "I'm talkin' to you." "{\i1\cH00ffff}Hut!" "get 'em!" "{\i1\cH00ffff}That's it." "Good!" "on the ball." "tempo!" "{\i1\cH00ffff}How 'bout we hit somebody this time?" "{\i1\cH00ffff}Try a little more contact." "one-sixteen!" "{\i1\cH80ffff}A tragic loss for the family and fans of former Chargers star Junior Seau... {\i1\cH80ffff}after he was found dead in his Oceanside home." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Good evening and thanks for joining us tonight." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Junior Seau's death is being investigated as a suicide." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Police say his girlfriend reported finding him... {\i1\cH80ffff}with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest." "{\i1\cH80ffff}Tonight there's widespread shock and disbelief over the sudden death."