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Cookie Gilchrist suffered from Stage IV CTE


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"There's no doubt in my mind that that's really what did it and changed him and shortened his life," Gilchrist said.

 

The guy was 75.

 

The fact he had to spend some of his best years in obscurity north of the border and he lost out on NFL salaries was a slight that rankled him his entire life.

Scott Gilchrist said his father had a legitimate reason to think he was unfairly compensated during his playing days. It's the reason his father refused induction into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in the 1980s.

 

"Part of him thought you never paid me what I was worth when I played there, and now you want to hold me up as an example of somebody who played both ways and did everything," Scott Gilchrist said. "But [he] was never compensated."

 

He sounds like he was bitter and held (perhaps legitimately) a grudge. That's CTE?

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