Dolphins Hall of Famer Nick Buoniconti will donate brain to concussion CTE research

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On Friday, Hall of Fame linebacker Nick Buoniconti joined the growing list of ex-NFL players who have pledged to donate their brain for concu sion and CTE research. In a statement, "My life, as I know it, has been taken away from me. I don't believe there are any miracles with this disease, but I am so proud to be with VA Secretary Shulkin, Dr. McKee and the BU CTE Center and Concu sion Legacy Foundation team today, who are so dedicated to fighting the ravages of concu sions and thousands of head impacts," he said. "I hope that my story and contribution will help thousands of others who are in this journey, or who will follow me."The full release is below: Former Dolphins great Nick Buoniconti: "My life, as I know it, has been taken away from me." He will donate brain to CTE researchers per BU. A.J. Perez (@byajperez) Buoniconti played as linebacker in the NFL from 1962-76. He's best known for being a key member of the ' Super Bowl teams in 1972 and 1973, but he also spent seven years with Troy Polamalu Jersey the Boston . He was inducted into In May, Buoniconti opened up to "I feel lost," Buoniconti told in May. "I feel like a child."Here's what S.L. Price wrote at the time: Buoniconti doesn't explain that he can't figure out how to knot a tie or towel his back. He doesn't speak of his increasingly usele s left hand, the increasingly frequent trips to the emergency Hines Ward Jersey room or how, just a few days earlier at his home on Long Island, he hurtled backward down a staircase and sprayed blood all over the hardwood, screaming afterward at Lynn, "I should just kill myself! It doesn't matter!" He doesn't mention the three staples subsequently crimped into his scalp, doesn't explain that just yesterdayin a fit of unexplainable pique, and against his own doctor's ordershe had another physician come to his hotel room and yank those staples out.Buoniconti isn't the only former player to have made the decision to donate his brain to concu sion research. So have and "We play in a macho league and we're talking about Hall of Famers now who are immortalized forever, made busts and everything, legends of the game," Sapp said when he made his announcement. "There's no way any of us want to really admit that we can't remember how to get home, or a grocery list that the wife has given us or how to go pick up our kids to the school, or whatever it may be."You try to (say), 'All right, I'm gonna get a little more sleep, maybe it's something I did last night, maybe it's something I drank' or, whatever it is. You try to find a reason that it's not my brain. That I'm not deteriorating right before my own eyes. It's the most frightening feeling, but it's also a very weakening feeling because you feel like a child. I need help. I need somebody to help me find something that I could've found with my eyes closed in the dead of night, half asleep." Research and awarene s regarding CTE has increased in recent years. In 2015, a study discovered that Last year, reported that the NFL used flawed concu sion research, and "more than 100 concu sions were omitted Cameron Heyward Jersey from their studies." The NFL demanded a , but stood by its reporting. In July, CTE can
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