Ed Cunningham resigns as ESPN CFB analyst

Is it me or is everyone losing their damn minds about every single subject

Sounds like he will sue the NFL for mental anguish.

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Is it me or is everyone losing their damn minds about every single subject

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Sort of, this guy is not just commenting but actually giving something up.

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"A cause-and-effect relationship has not yet been demonstrated between CTE and SRCs or exposure to contact sports. As such, the notion that repeated concussion or subconcussive impacts cause CTE remains unknown."

- 5th International Conference on Concussion in Sport (April, 2017)

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He was a great analyst. It really sucks that he is too naive to dig past the surface and not just swallow whole what certain interests groups repeat. Some people just grow whatever seed is planted in their head and don't question it.

He was a Center....?

In the couple games I listened to him in recent memory, I thought he was really bad to be completely honest.

It is always admirable to see someone put his money where his mouth is, but people really need to step back and take a deep breath on this whole football/CTE thing. It's a real issue with some troubling implications, no doubt, but we still don't have good answers to some really important questions, namely:

1). How common are neurological symptoms in former football players? What percentage of former NFL (or college, or high school) players have neurological problems at age 50, 60, 70, or 80, and how does this figure compare to the American male population of that age at large? Knowing this would allow us (and, more importantly, the young men making decisions about playing football) to at least roughly quantify the degree of long-term neurological risk involved. Having "some signs of CTE," while clearly alarming, is not the same thing as having a significant cognitive impairment--just like not everyone with "some signs of arteriosclerosis" will end up having a heart attack.

2). What will be the impacts of the changes that have been made in recent years to address this issue? In the last fifteen years or so, we have seen rules changes, practice modifications, increased concussion awareness, and equipment improvements. Will those changes significantly improve the long-term neurological prognosis for players today, compared to those who played in the 1970s and 1980s?

3). Are there further changes that can be made to mitigate risk, like not beginning tackle football until high school or modifying/improving equipment? It doesn't have to be all-or-nothing, where we either pretend like there's no problem or we boycott football.

4). How do the risks of long-term injury in football compare to those in other sports? Every sport has some degree of risk--where will we draw the line in terms of what we can't, in good conscience, support?


People who have a knee-jerk anti-football reaction in response to the CTE issues need to think about all of these questions--none of which have good, clear answers yet--before they just start rooting for the demise of the game that we all love.

Pollack got off the juice in losing all that weight. His whole body shrunk.

Ed Cunningham is a fricking joke and the worst color guy espn had for college football. So glad hes gone and of course he has to go out like the pussy jackass he is. Football is safer than it has ever been, expect cnn interviews from this a-hole for years to come