Claiming to Have Memory Loss From His 13-Year NFL Career, Warren Sapp Will Donate His Brain to Science

Sapp claims that he made the decision to give away his brain after he received an email from ex-NFL running back Fred Willis. The DT states that Willis's email "had quotes from NFL owners—I mean down the line you could see it: There's no correlation between football, CTE, suicides, and all this foolish stuff. (...) I mean, where are you getting this information from and then spewing it out as if it's fact?"

Sapp also went on to say that his 13 seasons in the league contributed to a worsening memory, as transcribed by ESPN:

From there he says that he used to have a great memory, but now has to rely upon phone reminders for the simplest of tasks.

"And it's from the banging we did as football players," he said. "We used to tackle them by the head, used to grab facemasks. We used to allow Deacon Jones to do the head slap. All of that was something that we had to take away from the game. We used to hit quarterbacks below the knees. Now it's a strike zone. Let's keep making the game better." Sapp says that one path to a solution (or at least an improvement) would be barring kids from tackle football until they reach high school.