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Classic symptoms of that. >> incredible to play 328 games consecutive. >> the most remarkable thing about brett favre was the ironman streak, that attitude of whatever is wrong put a band-aid on it, go back out on the field and play. teammates loved that attitude about him. he was praised for that over and over. and the fact that that could be one of the things that leads to him having problems later in life is one of the big paradoxes of the nfl these days. >> sanjay, he was obviously quarterback. are there specific player positions that are susceptible to brain injuries? >> yeah, there seems...

Me. >> yeah. >> for the first time in 44 years, that kind of put a little fear in me. >> i can understand why he's scared. anyone would be. but for a pro football player like favre there's also this. memory lapses can be a sign of a devastating disease that's been found in the brains of many athletes who suffered repeated hits to the head. there's no cure and it's not just professional athletes at risk. cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta neurosurgeon has more. >> dr. ann mckie runs the world's largest brain bank. a joint project between the veterans administration and boston univ...

Another player. they're changing the target zone which is what they call it. but other players argue, hey, that makes us more susceptible to knee injuries. the other issue here, too, is players reporting damage. brett favre has said many times, i can't even tell you how many concussions i had. he didn't want to tell anybody if he was feeling woozy because he didn't want to come out of the game. last year we saw in sfraen the quarterback alex smith said he had a concussion because all the new concussion protocols now you're supposed to say, he sat out because he had a concussion and he lost his...

And alzheimer's like symptoms. these symptoms are usually found in people in their 80s, not 40s. >> what we're seeing here, is this definitely caused by blows to the head? >> it's never been seen in any reported case except in a case of repeated blows to the head. >> under the microscope? >> that's really obvious, dr. mckie. >> we sawtel tail signs of tao protein. >> did this surprise you? >> it definitely did. it can start very early. >> that's amazing. 17 years old. >> 17-year-old. as the scientific evidence piles up, public awareness is growing, so is outrage in august thousands of former f...

Multimillionaire football players and others. >> making 100-million-dollar 150-million-dollar contracts over three years or something incredibly lucrative contracts part of the reason this is big money, advertisers pay up big money to watch these games, that is why earlier you said, the average nfl player earns 2.1 million dollars, the average nfl team worth 2.34 billion dollars, and nfl alone has to pull in almost five billion dollars, from television fees. from cbs, walt disney espn fox directv pull in that kind of money because of huge ratings but, now, those ratings are down, because maybe...