Brett Favre Talks Concussions, Field Safety

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The worst among Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre's many concussions resulted from his head hitting the playing surface, and it was just such a blow — on Dec. 20, 2010 — that ended a career that spanned 20 NFL seasons and 321 consecutive starts. Now Favre wants players, parents and coaches at all levels to realize what he never did — that head-to-surface contact causes one out of every five sports concussions, and that something can be done about it. As an executive producer of "Shocked: The Hidden Factor in the Sports Concussion Crisis," which asserts that a shock pad helps synthetic turf more closely mimic the resiliency of natural grass, Favre told AB senior editor Paul Steinbach on the eve of the documentary's January debut that he believes such padding can greatly reduce the occurrence of concussions.

How many concussions have you experienced?
That's the thing. I think the general public has always thought a guy gets hit, he goes stiff, he's out cold — a boxer gets hit and he just falls straight on his face — we know that's a concussion. But there are many more examples of concussions where a person is still conscious but it's no less damaging than the knockout blow. How many of those have I had? Oh, my gosh. Too many to count. And that's scary.

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