Super Bowl-Winning Quarterback Ken Stabler Had C.T.E., Test Results Show
By Kelly McEversSuper Bowl-Winning Quarterback Ken Stabler Had C.T.E., Test Results Show
By Kelly McEvers
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The late quarterback Ken Stabler was an anti-establishment icon playing in the very pro-establishment NFL in the 1970s. Now he’s become an icon of a very different sort. Test results showed that Stabler suffered from C.T.E., the degenerative brain disease linked to repeated blows to the head. NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks to Stabler’s long time partner, Kim Bush.
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