A quick note before we get started, this episode includes discussions of suicide, listen with care.

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Well, who was Irv Cross?

Irv Cross was a star defensive back in the 1960s?

That's Will Hobson, a national sports reporter for the Washington Post.

He recently reported on the players who have fallen through the cracks in the NFL's concussion settlement.

Who then became a famous broadcaster, was kind of a pioneer, first black full-time member of a network sports

broadcast. He was on CBS's NFL today for 15 years.

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Good evening, Auburn running back Bo Jackson tonight

was awarded the Heisman Trophy.

When he was a football player, what was his career like?

He was a really good DB. He was a really good

quarterback played for the Rams and Eagles pro-Bolar twice.

Each other 1964. Watch that. That interception right there is made by Erb Cross our own CBS sportsman a

94-yard return for a touchdown. He played in the 60s he's better known, my generation, I'm 39, it's better known to us as a sports broadcaster.

And then he years later developed symptoms of dementia, was eventually diagnosed with dementia,

and attempted to get compensated by the NFL concussion settlement.

When the NFL finalized its concussion settlement in 2015.

After years of scrutiny surrounding traumatic brain injuries and football,

it was called a landmark and historic deal.

It promised to compensate and help treat players if they developed dementia or other brain diseases linked to head trauma they suffered on the field.

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