The Jones household is really considered one of a sort within the sports activities world.
Final Preventing Championship (UFC) Heavyweight champion, Jon Jones, has been a magnet for controversy all through his legendary blended martial arts (MMA) profession. In a manner, “Bones” has been thought-about his personal worst enemy, because of his outside-the-Octagon points through the years.
Sadly for Jones and his household, his youthful brother, Chandler Jones, has lately taken a number of the highlight for some weird social media posts and an arrest after he was launched by the Nationwide Soccer League’s (NFL) Las Vegas Raiders this previous September 2023. Jones, 33, has since shared his ideas on Persistent Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), or the shortage thereof, which has change into a rising downside in touch sports activities over the previous so many many years.
“I don’t know the opposite two phrases within the acronym CTE, however I do know the T stands for trauma,” Jones mentioned on the JAXXON PODCAST (h/t Bloody Elbow). “I do know it’s not blunt pressure trauma. I do know it doesn’t additionally imply that you just received hit within the head too many instances. It doesn’t imply that. CTE isn’t actual. I don’t imagine it’s actual.
“The T in trauma could possibly be being molested as a child, from issues that you just went via from highschool,” he continued. “That could possibly be psychological trauma, emotional trauma, however not blunt pressure, received punched within the head, too many tackles.”
Jones prefaced his ideas by noting that he and his fellow former NFL participant, Antonio Brown (additionally no stranger to controversy), would possibly make a complete podcast centered round CTE being faux … as a result of the media has speculated that they undergo from it.
“There’s ways in which the media, they put out what Donald Trump says, faux information,” Jones mentioned. “There’s ways in which folks put out faux information and say, ‘Let’s scare this group of individuals. Let’s scare these athletes.’
“Earlier than I received out of the NFL… after I heard CTE, that they had me tackling (timidly),” he continued. “Earlier than I heard the phrase CTE, I used to be banging. Mark my phrases: in 2050, there can be no NFL. It’s getting too smooth.”
Over Jones’ 10 years within the NFL, he performed for 3 groups and received a Tremendous Bowl with the New England Patriots on the finish of the 2014 season. Whereas a profession in preventing may not essentially be within the playing cards for Jones at this stage, he’d do fairly properly if he wished to, in keeping with large brother, Jon.
