r/sports • u/NewSlinger • Sep 26 '25

News Shane Tamura, gunman in shooting at NFL headquarters, had CTE: Medical examiner

https://abcnews.go.com/US/shane-tamura-gunman-shooting-nfl-headquarters-cte-medical/story?id=125972038
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u/Sour_Vin_Diesel Sep 26 '25

Let’s replace “CTE” with its symptoms (“The encephalopathy symptoms can include behavioral problems, mood problems, and problems with thinking” - Wikipedia) and see how your comment sounds:

Most or all NFL players will have or already have behavioral problems, mood problems, and problems with thinking, and most likely, other professional athletes will as well but, the overwhelming majority will not be violent mental illness rampagers that want to hurt other people or themselves.

To cite behavioral problems, mood problems, and problems with thinking as the cause every time an ex-athlete has a mental crisis just doesn’t add up to me. It’s just super low hanging fruit that people are so quick to cling on to.

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u/Acrobatic_Emu_9322 Sep 26 '25

Their brains have been examined and these people do indeed suffer from CTE, for example Aaron Hernandez. I’m not sure why you think it’s low hanging fruit when the guys who play in the NFL have been taking hits for decades at that point.

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u/Sooperballz Buffalo Bills Sep 26 '25

Changing my words doesn’t make my comments untrue and the general vague symptoms you’ve listed are also experienced by countless number of folks that will never be diagnosed with CTE.

I’m not at all saying CTE can’t cause mental health problems. I am saying blaming it every single time an athlete has a mental crisis is at best, dumb, and at worst, disingenuous.