{"id":14669,"date":"2012-05-21T15:10:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T19:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14669"},"modified":"2012-05-21T15:10:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T19:10:45","slug":"nfl-player-bell-quits-football-fearing-future-brain-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14669","title":{"rendered":"NFL Player Bell Quits Football Fearing Future Brain Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jacob Bell<\/strong> of the Cincinatti Bengals has decided to call it quits after 8 years in the National Football League. The 31-year-old offensive lineman has made millions off the game that he loves, but with more than 3,000 professional football players, past and present, suing the NFL for \u201cdeliberately concealed information about the long-term effects of repeated hits to the head,\u201d <strong>Bell<\/strong> does not want to become another statistic.<\/p>\n<p>More than 3,000 pro football players, past and present, are suing the National Football League, claiming the NFL deliberately concealed information about the long-term effects of repeated hits to the head.<\/p>\n<p>After 8 years in the league, Bell retired in his prime. These days, his focus is on staying fit, keeping healthy, and recovering from past injuries. \u201cThe first time you sprain your ankle, you\u2019re thrown off,\u201d <strong>Bell<\/strong> says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re now seeing that there is clear-cut proof that the trauma incurred during football leads to problems later in life,\u201d <strong>Bell<\/strong> says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Bell of the Cincinatti Bengals has decided to call it quits after 8 years in the National Football League. The 31-year-old offensive lineman has made millions off the game that he loves, but with more than 3,000 professional football players, past and present, suing the NFL for \u201cdeliberately concealed information about the long-term effects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}