Will Smith tackles NFL cover-up in newly released trailer for 'Concussion'
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Will Smith tackles NFL cover-up in newly released trailer for ‘Concussion’
As if the NFL didn’t have enough controversy 10 days from the 2015 season opener between the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers, Sony Pictures just released the trailer for “Concussion,” a movie based on the true story of Bennet Omalu, the doctor who discovered the link between football and head trauma. On the same day NFL commissioner Roger Goodell appeared in court opposite Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, Sports Illustrated’s Peter King unveiled the two-minute trailer in his weekly Monday Morning Quarterback column, and it doesn’t exactly shine a favorable light on the league.
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Will Smith’s character in “Concussion”
For anyone who read “Game Brain,” the portrayal of the NFL as the film’s antagonist should come as no surprise, writes Yahoo Sports’ Ben Rohrbach, since Omalu pulled no punches when describing the league’s response to his July 2005 study for Neurosurgery titled “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a National Football League Player." Really, the only surprising aspect of the trailer is that Goodell is played by Luke Wilson, who is apparently going against type after portraying Joe Bauers, the last beacon of intelligence in the 2006 film "Idiocracy.”
