Ten days ago, Emily Kelly published a long opinion piece in the New York Times titled, “I’m the Wife of a Former N.F.L. Player. Football Destroyed His Mind.” In it, Kelly outlines the way in which her husband, 43-year-old Rob Kelly, has struggled to live a normal life since leaving football 15 year ago. Among the symptoms Mrs. Kelly wrote that her husband exhibited were: After years of little to no sleep, he alternated between sleeping either three hours a night or 20. I’d wake up to find every blind and curtain in the house closed and Rob sitting on the sofa with a blank expression on his face. He no longer felt comfortable driving, refused to leave the house and cut off contact with everyone. Specific details about how he wanted his funeral to be, and his demand that he be cremated, were brought up with excruciating frequency. One particularly dark time, he went…
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