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Page 1: A54 FOOTBALL BOB GLAUBER’S HOT READS Penaltiesup …bob.glauber@newsday.comJ im McMahonhad nearlygivenup hope,resignedto al ifetimeof pain and frightening memoryloss. He even considered

Jim’sMcMiracle

believe what had just hap-pened.“Laurie was teary-eyedbecause it was like a miracle,”Terry said.Navon simply said, “I got myJimmy back.”McMahon needed a fewmore treatments — and stillrequires help in making surehis spine is properly aligned —but he is living a relativelynormal life again.There still is some short-term

memory loss, but not nearly tothe extent he experienced be-fore getting help. And there isjoint pain from arthritis, some-thing he understands and ac-cepts after somany years ofplaying in theNFL. But therealso is relief from the symptomsthat once threatened his life.Last month, after completing

his bachelor’s degree atBrigham Young University,where he starred in college, hisnumber was retired. And onMonday, he appeared at thePelham Country Club inWestchester to announce thestart of the Players AgainstConcussions foundation, a

nonprofit organization dedicat-ing to helping athletes at alllevels of sports better under-stand the dangers of concus-sions and promoting safetyissues to help those sports —including football — continueto thrive.

A promise to helpDespite his recent improve-ment, McMahon believes hemay be suffering from chron-ic traumatic encephalopathy(CTE), a progressive neuro-degenerative disease. He hasagreed to donate his brain tothe Boston University Schoolof Medicine, said to be thecountry’s leading facility forstudying the brains of de-ceased former players. Arecent study conducted thereshowed that 76 of 79 brainsof former football players,including many who playedin the NFL, were diagnosedwith CTE.McMahon wants to do his

part to advance the scienceof brain study, although heshowed some of his trade-mark humor in making thedecision to donate his brain.“My girlfriend said, ‘You

can’t just donate your brain.’ Isaid, ‘Well, I’m not going toneed it if I’m dead.’ ”McMahon’s case is poten-

tially good news for otherformer players sufferingsymptoms similar to the ones

he has experienced, especial-ly if their issues are relatedto neck problems not previ-ously diagnosed. Damadianand Rosa believe the intercon-nectedness of concussionsand neck problems is notgiven enough consideration.And it’s not just with footballplayers.“The medical profession isgenerally not aware of it,”Damadian said. “[Neck is-sues] are playing a role in alot of neurodegenerativediseases, including multiplesclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease,Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’sdisease and, the one thattroubles me the most, child-hood autism.”Rosa suggests footballplayers at all levels can bene-fit from increased focus onneck issues. He, too, believesthat other people sufferingfrom neurodegenerative dis-eases also can find relief.“We believe that we havecome across things and obser-vations which are pieces ofthe puzzle that the medicaland scientific people didn’tknow about,” he said. “Thetechnology has enabled us tosee things we’ve never seenbefore. If the observationswe’re seeing continue as atrend, it’s quite plausible thatwe might very well changethe course of humanity andmankind forever.”

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TheNFLgave fairwarningthat itwould crack downondefensiveplayers, calling penal-ties in the preseason just aboutevery timeadefender somuchas laid a handon a receiver. Thetrendmost certainly has carriedover into the regular season,with penaltieswayup in thepassinggame.

According to theNFL, nearlyfour times asmany illegal-con-tact penalties have beencalledthrough five gamesas therewere at this point last year (59to 15). Defensive-holding callsalso arewayup; last year, therewere52calls throughWeek5,compared to 115 this season.

There also havebeen 14morepenalties for pass interfer-enceand48more calls forillegal use of the hands.

Butthecrackdownondefend-ersinthepassinggamehasn’ttranslatedtoanymajorchangesinoveralloffensiveoutput.Anaverageof46.4pointspergamehavebeenscoredthisseason.Andalthoughthat’sthemostthroughfiveweeksatanypointsincethe1970NFL-AFLmerger,it’sbarelymorethanlastyear’stotalatthesamepoint.

Not only that, but passingyards are downslightly fromlast year. Therehas beenanaverageof 484.4passing yardsper game this year, comparedto497.8 at the samepoint lastseason.

Home sweet homeAfter getting thrashed 43-17

last Sunday in New England,Cincinnati is back home thisweek to face Carolina. That’sgood news for the Bengals,who have won 11 straighthome games. During thatstreak, quarterback AndyDalton has passed for 2,563yards and 22 touchdowns fora 97.7 rating.

Roethlisberger rulesMuch-improved Cleveland,

coming off a dramatic25-point comeback win inTennessee last week, host theSteelers today. That meanswe’ll really see just how muchbetter the Browns really are.

After all, Pittsburgh quarter-back Ben Roethlisberger is18-1 against Cleveland, thebest record of any quarter-back against a team since the1970 merger.

Hey Rodgers!No wonder Aaron Rodgers

was telling Packers fans torelax after they panickedbecause of the team’s slowstart. Rodgers has been justabout perfect in his last fourgames, posting a 124.4 ratingwith 11 touchdown passes andno interceptions.

Romo vs. SeahawksHugegame today for the4-1

Cowboys,who face theSea-hawks in Seattle andwill findout just how they stand againstelite teams.Oneplayerwho is preaching

caution aboutDallas’ quickstart is quarterbackTonyRomo,whohas seen thingsturn out badly before; theCowboys finished8-8 the lastthree seasons.

“Being4-1 is great, butwehave a longway togo,” Romosaid. “Youwant to put yourselfin the best position at the endof the year.”

TheCowboyshope runningbackDeMarcoMurray contin-ues his torrid pace.Murrayleads theNFLwith 670 rushingyards and is tied for firstwithfive rushing touchdowns.Hehas rushed formore than 100yards in five straight games,joiningHall of Famers JimBrownandO.J. Simpsonas theonly playerswith at least 100rushing yards in his team’s firstfive games.

Penalties upon defense

Packers QB Aaron Rodgers.

BOB GLAUBER’SHOT READS

JimMcMahon and Jeremy Roenick attend Players Against Concussions at Pelham CC on Oct. 6.

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JimMcMahon sees his No. 9JimMcMahon sees his No. 9jersey retired at BYU’sjersey retired at BYU’sLaVell Edwards Stadium.LaVell Edwards Stadium.

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Jim McMahon hadnearly given uphope, resigned toa lifetime of painand frighteningmemory loss. Heeven consideredgiving up com-

pletely and taking his own life.Then a Long Island doctor

helped him find a miracle.Before meeting Dr. Ray-mond Damadian of Woodbury,the pain in the 55-year-oldformer quarterback’s head wasso excruciating, the throbbingof every single heartbeat in hisears so persistent, that hemostly sought refuge in thebedroom of his home in Scotts-dale, Arizona. It was the onlyway he could find any sort ofrelief, and even then — justlying on his bed with the lightsoff — he couldn’t completelyescape the pain.“It got to the point where Iwouldn’t get out of bed forweeks at a time,” the formerSuper Bowl-winning quarter-back said.The acutememory losswasjust as troublesome.On theoccasionswhenMcMahon didleave his home, he sometimescouldn’t rememberwhere hewas. Sometimes he’d decide togo out to the store to buy somechewing tobacco, but half anhour later, he’d still be homebecause he’d forgottenwhy hewanted to go out. He had tocarry a picture of him and hisgirlfriend, LaurieNavon, withher telephone number in case heforgotwho hewas orwhere heneeded to go.“I’d be driving down theroad trying to go home, and Iwouldn’t know where I wasat,” he said. “I called my girl-friend and I told her I didn’tknow where I was. She said,‘What are you driving past?’ Isaid, ‘Well, I just saw the casi-no, and I know I’m supposedto go past that to get home.’ Ijust couldn’t get home.”There were thoughts of

suicide, he said, especiallythe times when he’d flashback to his last meeting withformer Bears teammate DaveDuerson, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound onFeb. 17, 2011.“I was with him a monthbefore he killed himself,” Mc-Mahon said. “He’d say, ‘Mac,sometimes I’m driving aroundand I don’t know where I’m at.’I told him I do that, too. Istarted having [suicidal] feel-

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ings myself. If I had a gun, Imight be dead.”McMahon didn’t take his ownlife, but hewas resigned tospending the rest of his days indeclining health, another sadexample of the aftereffects ofthemultiple concussions hesuffered during his 15-yearcareer, which endedwith the1996 season.A cover story in Sports Illus-

trated two years ago chroniclinghis health problems broughtMcMahon’s situation into focusand drew further attention tothe league’s concussion crisis.He once had been an electrify-ing personality on the Bears’unforgettable 1985 Super Bowlchampionship team, but nowhewas reduced to chronic pain,forgetfulness and suicidalthoughts—a familiar patternfor somany other players dam-aged by the game.

And then, helpBut his haunting story ulti-mately turned into a life-chang-ing moment for McMahon,thanks to two Long Islandresidents who had a hunchthat McMahon’s problemscould be traceable not only tonumerous concussions but alsoto issues with his neck.As it turns out, Damadianand his brother-in-law, DaveTerry of East Quogue, notonly may have saved McMa-hon’s life and alleviatedmuch of his suffering, butultimately could help otherformer players dealing withsimilar situations.“I read the [Sports Illustrat-ed] article two years ago andI’m like, ‘Oh, man, I didn’tknow he was having a prob-lem,’ ” said Terry, who with

Damadian co-foundedMelville-based Fonar, the firstcompany to manufacturemagnetic resonance imaging(MRI) machines in 1980. “I’dmet Jim at a golf tournamentabout seven years ago and Ireally got a kick out of him.My brother-in-law was start-ing a new science, and I

thought maybe we can help.”Terry contacted McMahonthrough a mutual acquaintanceand the former quarterbackhad an MRI at the Fonar facili-ty, where Damadian had beguna new procedure in whichpatients have the MRI donewhile sitting down, not in arecumbent position, as intraditional imaging tests.“Jim’s principal problemswere headaches and loss of

memory, and I asked if he’dever had an MRI,” Damadiansaid. “He said yes, and I askedwhat part of his anatomy wasscanned, and he said his head.”Damadian took a closer lookat McMahon’s neck and foundthat the top two vertebraewere misaligned, which causeda blockage of his cerebralspinal fluid.“If that fluid gets obstructedand backs up, you get symp-toms of pressure, numbness,loss of vision, and ultimately,people end up in wheelchairs,”Damadian said. “When thefluid is blocked, it backs upinto the head, a conditioncalled cranial cervical syn-drome.”McMahon said he was never

told about any neck problems,

believing that his post-NFLissues were solely concussion-related.“Dr. Damadian said that the

only thing that would makesomething like this happen toyour neck is if you got dumpedon top of your head,” McMa-hon said. “I told him that’swhat happened in 1986. But Ihad taken so many painkillerswhen I was playing, I couldn’tfeel anything.”

“I got my Jimmy back”A few days after the MRI,Damadian and Terry accompa-nied McMahon and Navon tothe upstate Rock Hill office ofDr. Scott Rosa, a cranio-cervi-cal specialist. Rosa performeda noninvasive procedure — theImage Guided Atlas Treatment— that aligned the C-1 and C-2vertebrae near the base ofMcMahon’s skull.The relief was almost instan-

taneous.“When they first did it tome, it was like the toiletflushed,” McMahon said. “Ithought to myself, ‘No wonderI can hear my heart beating. Itwas bang, bang, bang.’ I washaving trouble speaking. Icouldn’t see clearly. But assoon as [Rosa] moved thosebones, it was amazing.”Terry saw McMahon shortlyafter the procedure and wasastonished.“I saw a face that was almostghostly white flush pink rightafter it,” he said. “I said, ‘Jim,how are you feeling?’ He said,‘Actually, pretty good.’ I said,‘Don’t BS me.’ He said, ‘No, Ifeel really good. I don’t have aheadache anymore.’ ”Navon, who once thought

her boyfriend would never bewhole again, almost couldn’t

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Dr. Raymond Damadian withhis MRI scanner at Fonarheadquarters in Melville.

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JimMcMahon sees his No. 9JimMcMahon sees his No. 9jersey retired at BYU’sjersey retired at BYU’sLaVell Edwards Stadium.LaVell Edwards Stadium.

FOOTBALL

BY BOB [email protected]

Jim McMahon hadnearly given uphope, resigned toa lifetime of painand frighteningmemory loss. Heeven consideredgiving up com-

pletely and taking his own life.Then a Long Island doctor

helped him find a miracle.Before meeting Dr. Ray-mond Damadian of Woodbury,the pain in the 55-year-oldformer quarterback’s head wasso excruciating, the throbbingof every single heartbeat in hisears so persistent, that hemostly sought refuge in thebedroom of his home in Scotts-dale, Arizona. It was the onlyway he could find any sort ofrelief, and even then — justlying on his bed with the lightsoff — he couldn’t completelyescape the pain.“It got to the point where Iwouldn’t get out of bed forweeks at a time,” the formerSuper Bowl-winning quarter-back said.The acutememory losswasjust as troublesome.On theoccasionswhenMcMahon didleave his home, he sometimescouldn’t rememberwhere hewas. Sometimes he’d decide togo out to the store to buy somechewing tobacco, but half anhour later, he’d still be homebecause he’d forgottenwhy hewanted to go out. He had tocarry a picture of him and hisgirlfriend, LaurieNavon, withher telephone number in case heforgotwho hewas orwhere heneeded to go.“I’d be driving down theroad trying to go home, and Iwouldn’t know where I wasat,” he said. “I called my girl-friend and I told her I didn’tknow where I was. She said,‘What are you driving past?’ Isaid, ‘Well, I just saw the casi-no, and I know I’m supposedto go past that to get home.’ Ijust couldn’t get home.”There were thoughts of

suicide, he said, especiallythe times when he’d flashback to his last meeting withformer Bears teammate DaveDuerson, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound onFeb. 17, 2011.“I was with him a monthbefore he killed himself,” Mc-Mahon said. “He’d say, ‘Mac,sometimes I’m driving aroundand I don’t know where I’m at.’I told him I do that, too. Istarted having [suicidal] feel-

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ings myself. If I had a gun, Imight be dead.”McMahon didn’t take his ownlife, but hewas resigned tospending the rest of his days indeclining health, another sadexample of the aftereffects ofthemultiple concussions hesuffered during his 15-yearcareer, which endedwith the1996 season.A cover story in Sports Illus-

trated two years ago chroniclinghis health problems broughtMcMahon’s situation into focusand drew further attention tothe league’s concussion crisis.He once had been an electrify-ing personality on the Bears’unforgettable 1985 Super Bowlchampionship team, but nowhewas reduced to chronic pain,forgetfulness and suicidalthoughts—a familiar patternfor somany other players dam-aged by the game.

And then, helpBut his haunting story ulti-mately turned into a life-chang-ing moment for McMahon,thanks to two Long Islandresidents who had a hunchthat McMahon’s problemscould be traceable not only tonumerous concussions but alsoto issues with his neck.As it turns out, Damadianand his brother-in-law, DaveTerry of East Quogue, notonly may have saved McMa-hon’s life and alleviatedmuch of his suffering, butultimately could help otherformer players dealing withsimilar situations.“I read the [Sports Illustrat-ed] article two years ago andI’m like, ‘Oh, man, I didn’tknow he was having a prob-lem,’ ” said Terry, who with

Damadian co-foundedMelville-based Fonar, the firstcompany to manufacturemagnetic resonance imaging(MRI) machines in 1980. “I’dmet Jim at a golf tournamentabout seven years ago and Ireally got a kick out of him.My brother-in-law was start-ing a new science, and I

thought maybe we can help.”Terry contacted McMahonthrough a mutual acquaintanceand the former quarterbackhad an MRI at the Fonar facili-ty, where Damadian had beguna new procedure in whichpatients have the MRI donewhile sitting down, not in arecumbent position, as intraditional imaging tests.“Jim’s principal problemswere headaches and loss of

memory, and I asked if he’dever had an MRI,” Damadiansaid. “He said yes, and I askedwhat part of his anatomy wasscanned, and he said his head.”Damadian took a closer lookat McMahon’s neck and foundthat the top two vertebraewere misaligned, which causeda blockage of his cerebralspinal fluid.“If that fluid gets obstructedand backs up, you get symp-toms of pressure, numbness,loss of vision, and ultimately,people end up in wheelchairs,”Damadian said. “When thefluid is blocked, it backs upinto the head, a conditioncalled cranial cervical syn-drome.”McMahon said he was never

told about any neck problems,

believing that his post-NFLissues were solely concussion-related.“Dr. Damadian said that the

only thing that would makesomething like this happen toyour neck is if you got dumpedon top of your head,” McMa-hon said. “I told him that’swhat happened in 1986. But Ihad taken so many painkillerswhen I was playing, I couldn’tfeel anything.”

“I got my Jimmy back”A few days after the MRI,Damadian and Terry accompa-nied McMahon and Navon tothe upstate Rock Hill office ofDr. Scott Rosa, a cranio-cervi-cal specialist. Rosa performeda noninvasive procedure — theImage Guided Atlas Treatment— that aligned the C-1 and C-2vertebrae near the base ofMcMahon’s skull.The relief was almost instan-

taneous.“When they first did it tome, it was like the toiletflushed,” McMahon said. “Ithought to myself, ‘No wonderI can hear my heart beating. Itwas bang, bang, bang.’ I washaving trouble speaking. Icouldn’t see clearly. But assoon as [Rosa] moved thosebones, it was amazing.”Terry saw McMahon shortlyafter the procedure and wasastonished.“I saw a face that was almostghostly white flush pink rightafter it,” he said. “I said, ‘Jim,how are you feeling?’ He said,‘Actually, pretty good.’ I said,‘Don’t BS me.’ He said, ‘No, Ifeel really good. I don’t have aheadache anymore.’ ”Navon, who once thought

her boyfriend would never bewhole again, almost couldn’t

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believe what had just hap-pened.“Laurie was teary-eyedbecause it was like a miracle,”Terry said.Navon simply said, “I got myJimmy back.”McMahon needed a fewmore treatments — and stillrequires help in making surehis spine is properly aligned —but he is living a relativelynormal life again.There still is some short-term

memory loss, but not nearly tothe extent he experienced be-fore getting help. And there isjoint pain from arthritis, some-thing he understands and ac-cepts after somany years ofplaying in theNFL. But therealso is relief from the symptomsthat once threatened his life.Last month, after completing

his bachelor’s degree atBrigham Young University,where he starred in college, hisnumber was retired. And onMonday, he appeared at thePelham Country Club inWestchester to announce thestart of the Players AgainstConcussions foundation, a

nonprofit organization dedicat-ing to helping athletes at alllevels of sports better under-stand the dangers of concus-sions and promoting safetyissues to help those sports —including football — continueto thrive.

A promise to helpDespite his recent improve-ment, McMahon believes hemay be suffering from chron-ic traumatic encephalopathy(CTE), a progressive neuro-degenerative disease. He hasagreed to donate his brain tothe Boston University Schoolof Medicine, said to be thecountry’s leading facility forstudying the brains of de-ceased former players. Arecent study conducted thereshowed that 76 of 79 brainsof former football players,including many who playedin the NFL, were diagnosedwith CTE.McMahon wants to do his

part to advance the scienceof brain study, although heshowed some of his trade-mark humor in making thedecision to donate his brain.“My girlfriend said, ‘You

can’t just donate your brain.’ Isaid, ‘Well, I’m not going toneed it if I’m dead.’ ”McMahon’s case is poten-

tially good news for otherformer players sufferingsymptoms similar to the ones

he has experienced, especial-ly if their issues are relatedto neck problems not previ-ously diagnosed. Damadianand Rosa believe the intercon-nectedness of concussionsand neck problems is notgiven enough consideration.And it’s not just with footballplayers.“The medical profession isgenerally not aware of it,”Damadian said. “[Neck is-sues] are playing a role in alot of neurodegenerativediseases, including multiplesclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease,Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’sdisease and, the one thattroubles me the most, child-hood autism.”Rosa suggests footballplayers at all levels can bene-fit from increased focus onneck issues. He, too, believesthat other people sufferingfrom neurodegenerative dis-eases also can find relief.“We believe that we havecome across things and obser-vations which are pieces ofthe puzzle that the medicaland scientific people didn’tknow about,” he said. “Thetechnology has enabled us tosee things we’ve never seenbefore. If the observationswe’re seeing continue as atrend, it’s quite plausible thatwe might very well changethe course of humanity andmankind forever.”

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TheNFLgave fairwarningthat itwould crack downondefensiveplayers, calling penal-ties in the preseason just aboutevery timeadefender somuchas laid a handon a receiver. Thetrendmost certainly has carriedover into the regular season,with penaltieswayup in thepassinggame.

According to theNFL, nearlyfour times asmany illegal-con-tact penalties have beencalledthrough five gamesas therewere at this point last year (59to 15). Defensive-holding callsalso arewayup; last year, therewere52calls throughWeek5,compared to 115 this season.

There also havebeen 14morepenalties for pass interfer-enceand48more calls forillegal use of the hands.

Butthecrackdownondefend-ersinthepassinggamehasn’ttranslatedtoanymajorchangesinoveralloffensiveoutput.Anaverageof46.4pointspergamehavebeenscoredthisseason.Andalthoughthat’sthemostthroughfiveweeksatanypointsincethe1970NFL-AFLmerger,it’sbarelymorethanlastyear’stotalatthesamepoint.

Not only that, but passingyards are downslightly fromlast year. Therehas beenanaverageof 484.4passing yardsper game this year, comparedto497.8 at the samepoint lastseason.

Home sweet homeAfter getting thrashed 43-17

last Sunday in New England,Cincinnati is back home thisweek to face Carolina. That’sgood news for the Bengals,who have won 11 straighthome games. During thatstreak, quarterback AndyDalton has passed for 2,563yards and 22 touchdowns fora 97.7 rating.

Roethlisberger rulesMuch-improved Cleveland,

coming off a dramatic25-point comeback win inTennessee last week, host theSteelers today. That meanswe’ll really see just how muchbetter the Browns really are.

After all, Pittsburgh quarter-back Ben Roethlisberger is18-1 against Cleveland, thebest record of any quarter-back against a team since the1970 merger.

Hey Rodgers!No wonder Aaron Rodgers

was telling Packers fans torelax after they panickedbecause of the team’s slowstart. Rodgers has been justabout perfect in his last fourgames, posting a 124.4 ratingwith 11 touchdown passes andno interceptions.

Romo vs. SeahawksHugegame today for the4-1

Cowboys,who face theSea-hawks in Seattle andwill findout just how they stand againstelite teams.Oneplayerwho is preaching

caution aboutDallas’ quickstart is quarterbackTonyRomo,whohas seen thingsturn out badly before; theCowboys finished8-8 the lastthree seasons.

“Being4-1 is great, butwehave a longway togo,” Romosaid. “Youwant to put yourselfin the best position at the endof the year.”

TheCowboyshope runningbackDeMarcoMurray contin-ues his torrid pace.Murrayleads theNFLwith 670 rushingyards and is tied for firstwithfive rushing touchdowns.Hehas rushed formore than 100yards in five straight games,joiningHall of Famers JimBrownandO.J. Simpsonas theonly playerswith at least 100rushing yards in his team’s firstfive games.

Penalties upon defense

Packers QB Aaron Rodgers.

BOB GLAUBER’SHOT READS

JimMcMahon and Jeremy Roenick attend Players Against Concussions at Pelham CC on Oct. 6.

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