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Disease known as cte. >> the disease is linked to traumatic head injuries found in more than 50 diseased nfl players. dorsett sat down with an in depth interview with espn. >> reporter: in his hall of fame career, tony dorsett experienced moments of glory. also, took blows to the head. the worst one, he says, was this violent hit in a cowboys/eagles game in 1984. >> it reminded me of a mack truck hitting a volkswagen. i believe, he just blowed me up. >> did they call that a concussion? >> no, they called that a knockout. >> dorsett says he doesn't know how many concussions he suffered during h...

Cte is unbelievable. first begins to impair part of the brain that controls the emotion and memory. it eventually spreads to overwhelm the brain. the brain shrinks to half its size in chronic cte. >> it starts to affect every single part of who you are. you become a shell of the man or person you were initially. already -- you know, you talk about this being linked to the concussions in the nfl, which is what everybody is saying. already 62 concussions have been reported in this season alone for the nfl. the good thing is they're trying to take a look at these things and if it's a concussion, ...

My short temperedness, i'm very short tempered. it gets worse. >> at his lowest moments, dorsett says he has thought about suicide. >> yeah, i've thought about crazy stuff, sort of like, why do i need to keep continue going through this. i mean, i'm too -- too smart of a person, i like to think, to take my life, but it's crossed my mind. >> reporter: neurosurgen julian bales is part of a medical team that says it's devised a brain scan to identify signs of cte in a living person. dorsett is one of nine retired nfl players to take the test conducted at ucla. results are in for eight and all hav...

To be. he says this much. cte is unbelievable. first begins to impair part of the brain that controls the emotion and memory. it eventually spreads to overwhelm the brain. the brain shrinks to half its size in chronic cte. >> it starts to affect every single part of who you are. you become a shell of the man or person you were initially. already -- you know, you talk about this being linked to the concussions in the nfl, which is what everybody is saying. already 62 concussions have been reported in this season alone for the nfl. the good thing is they're trying to take a look at these things ...

>> a hero of mine and he's not himself, clearly. >> you can see it. >> oh, yes. >> cte is a protein that surrounds the brain and it starts affecting every part of your body. you become like he said a shell of who you are. >> found in football players as young as 17 years old. scary stuff. >> hard to hear for a parent who's starting to think about putting their kids in that sport. >> no doubt about it. coming up, a big night for country music. 47th annual country music awards. ahead in the next hour, men who fathered dozens, even hundreds of children. they don't even know about them. the ne...