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Fundamentals and the fundamentals of tackling -- and that's where you get into football, everyone is trying to make the highlight reel and launching themselves, making themselves a projectile instead of getting into a great athletic position, breaking down and making an athletic move. there's a huge difference there. and i believe, and you can go on u.s.a. football and look at all the statistics and techniques that do it that actually will get you away from the possibility of head injuries. >> congressman, talk about what the nfl has done for you after you broke your tailbone, also had to have...

What about the pulling a child off the field and making them be checked the way our nfl players and pros have to go through a procedure. does that take place in schools and on playgrounds around the country? >> it takes place in some schools that have the funding. part of the problem is that the kind of care that you need, an independent neurologist on site as the nfl has now, baseline testing so you know what the condition of a person's brain is before any trauma occurs, so you can measure what has happened. that sort of sophisticated treatment and ongoing observation just isn't financially p...

When he was out with concussion symptoms. now ten former nhl players are suing the league for not doing enough to protect them against concussions. >> this is similar to the lawsuit that we just saw in the nfl that they settled less than three months ago. and basically what they're claiming, an nhl athlete can suffer almost 1,000 hits to his head during the season. and they're claiming that they contribute to the injuries by refusing to ban body checking. and they want damages and medical programs in place for the former players who are dealing with these symptoms. >> i'm surprised that hockey...

far. if we stay true to form, that means we will see a huge rally today. cross your fingers and hold on, folks. also this morning, five nato troops killed in a bomb attack in southern afghanistan. coalition troops have killed nearly 200 militants in recent weeks. keeping an eye on afghanistan, of course. keeping an eye on great britain. britain's prime minister says london police waited too long to arrest rioters this past weekend. he said that when he was speaking to parliament in a special session on the rioting. we will have more on this in a moment. ♪ all right, folks, ...