{"id":1099,"date":"2015-09-08T15:12:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainstreams.ca\/canadian-sport-concussion-project-educates-cflers-on-brain-traumas\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:16:57","slug":"canadian-sport-concussion-project-educates-cflers-on-brain-traumas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/canadian-sport-concussion-project-educates-cflers-on-brain-traumas\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Sport Concussion Project educates CFLers on brain traumas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAMILTON\u2014Chris Walby, a Canadian Football Hall of Fame offensive lineman for 16 years with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and former football broadcaster, recalls once finding himself in the wrong huddle after taking a big hit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t see where I was,\u201d Walby recalled last in Hamilton at the Angelo Mosca fundraising event for Alzheimer\u2019s, held on Aug. 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was blacked out. The next thing I knew I was standing in Hamilton\u2019s huddle. Mike Campbell, the defensive tackle, kicked me in the ass and said, \u2018Hey fat boy, you\u2019re in the wrong huddle, get over there.\u2019 It was crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, people would simply laugh at such situations. Today, however, much more is known about brain injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Sport concussions have been linked to chronic traumatic encephalopathy \u2014 CTE \u2014 a degenerative brain disease that can cause dementia, depression and aggression.<\/p>\n<p>CTE can only be diagnosed after death.<\/p>\n<p>When Mosca was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/sports\/football\/2015\/02\/27\/sports-giant-angelo-mosca-copes-with-alzheimers.html\">diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0two weeks after his 78th birthday in February, his family and the CFL alumni got behind efforts to honour Mosca and shine a light on Alzheimer\u2019s, a form of dementia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/sports\/football\/2015\/09\/06\/canadian-sport-concussion-project-puts-educates-cflers-on-brain-traumas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAMILTON\u2014Chris Walby, a Canadian Football Hall of Fame offensive lineman for 16 years with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and former football broadcaster, recalls once finding himself in the wrong huddle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}