‘This is what I love:’ Riders play football despite CTE risks
Brendon LaBatte is not giving up on his passion.
The Roughriders offensive lineman said his love of football will keep him in the game for as long as he can play it, despite new research that showed 99 per cent of the studied brains of NFLers came back with CTE.
“I don’t really worry about it too much right now,” LaBatte admitted after practice on Wednesday afternoon. “This is what I’ve been doing, this is what I love to do, this is a passion of mine so I’m not about to just put everything on hold and want to go live in bubble wrap in the hope that I live to be 75 or 80 years old.”
LaBatte said the results from the study are “alarming” but he always knew the risks of playing contact sports.