Star Telegram
December 1, 2015
The new Will Smith movie, Concussion, is coming out on Christmas day, bringing to light the severe effects of concussions on football players in the NFL. Based on a true story, Nigerian pathologist Bennet Omalu, played by Will Smith, seeks to expose the negative effects football has on the brain after he performs an autopsy on a football player who had committed suicide. Omalu discovers that the football player's brain had a severe case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and he embarks on a battle with the NFL to inform people of the dangers of this sport.