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Hey there, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand.

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I think there are a few people in media, a few people alive, and I don't say that burgaciously that can sort of give you insights into Bart Star, the great, great, great man and football player that died this week.

As I can, and I hopefully will be, I'll share some memories of Bart from my time and so many people

have tweeted and left me notes that it's just something I'll share with you. So first, a rant.

And this rant is about marijuana use. We see news over the past week that the NFL and NFLPA have

formed a committee, two committees, one to

study mental health, which is obviously a great thing. I think depression and mental

illness run rampant throughout society, and football is no stranger to that, too. Just like any part

of society, you're going to have mental illness issues with a population of football players.

And I also say coaches, front office, executives, staff, et cetera.

And it's important that players and owners are studying that.

You know, when I was in Green Bay, we had a mental health clinician that was kind of on call for the Packers and she was around.

But in retrospect, I wish that I sort of had her mandated to meet with every player every year.

And the players would have no choice because at that time, and maybe even now, there's some stigma attached.

So that didn't happen as often as we would have liked.

But mental health, obviously, priority and destigmatization is underway, which is great.

Everyone, including myself, who I see a therapist as well, needs to have that.

I think it can only help.

There's no stigma to it. Everyone needs someone to talk to kind of an independent voice about what's going on.

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