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.