NFL stands behind exec’s acknowledgement of CTE link

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NFL Senior Vice President of Health and Safety Policy Jeff Miller (David J. Phillip/AP)

PHILADELPHIA — The NFL is standing behind a top executive’s acknowledgement that the brain disease CTE can be linked to football.

League spokesman Brian McCarthy said Tuesday the comments by senior vice-president for health and safety Jeff Miller "accurately reflect the view of the NFL." Miller spoke Monday at a congressional committee’s discussion about concussions

League officials have long denied proof of a connection between playing in the NFL and the condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

Critics of the NFL’s proposed $1 billion plan to settle concussion claims say Miller’s remarks are a game changer.

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