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He had a heart— his heart, you know, was getting enlarged. I mean, I think Dad's the only person who could actually, you know, have a medical problem like that and decide to fix it with superglue. The skin on his forehead had built up almost a shelf of scar tissue that— from the continuous pounding of his head into other people. I was expecting to see a brain with Alzheimer's disease features, so a shriveled, ugly-looking brain.

But upon opening his skull, Mike's brain looked normal. It became sort of like his little private mission. Omalu wanted to fix the brain, preserve it in a chemical bath for further study. Let me spend time with this brain. There's something— something doesn't match. That brain is normal.

I want you to fix the brain. Steve has a Pulitzer Prize for reporting in Iraq. Mark broke the Barry Bonds steroids story. We'd like you to participate. We'd like you to make available these various people. We're not going to help you.

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Webster wanted to prove to the world that he was going to be the toughest, and he did anything that he possibly could to do that. He could explode into the player. Every play was a fight. And with that head, he'd pop you. And then he'd lift his shoulders. Now he'd get you up in the air.

Once you hit full speed and you're moving backwards and he hits you, you're gone. You know, he's going to hurt me.

All of my power is coming from my big rear end and my big thighs into my forearm, and I hit him in the face. I have to stun him, get my hands on him, throw him off when I see where the ball is going. And when I hit him in the face, his head is going back. He's going forward, but all of a sudden, his head is going back and his brain is hitting up against the inside of his skull.

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That's the nature of the game. Those things seem to happen around 1, to 1, times a year. Each time that happens, it's around 20G or more. That's the equivalent of driving a car at 35 miles per hour into a brick wall 1, to 1, times per year. The minute you put your pads on, you're only one play away from getting seriously injured. It surely has. But I'm not out there crying about it. I know that I went to war, and I came out of the battle with what I got. And you know, that's the way it is. That's the way Mike Webster would say it, too. I'm sure he would.

I mean, we battled in there, and this is what— this is the result of it right here, sitting right here looking at you. I don't know how he held onto that! Sammy White, he did a remarkable catch with Skip Thomas and Jack Tatum jackknifing him as he caught the ball for a first down on the Oakland yard line. Soon he and his family would come to believe those hits to the head had taken a devastating toll. He was angrier quicker than before, and didn't have the patience to have, you know, the kids on his lap or take a walk with the kids.

Like, he didn't have that stamina physically. He was— he actually— he broke down in tears in front of me a couple of times because he couldn't get his thoughts together and he couldn't keep them in order. They were all destroyed and gone and broken glass, and they were all down, you know? And it wasn't Mike. But 27 years and four children later, Mike and Pam Webster's marriage ended. You're just trying to get by in this storm. I mean, your money's gone. Your pride's gone. Our bills are all overdue.

Our house is getting foreclosed. All this security is gone. All those parameters are removed. So everything's crumbling. And it would be freezing and he'd just be sitting there, just looking miserable.

He'd say, "You know, the worst thing is, is I'm actually getting to the point where sometimes, or if I don't have my medicine," he said, "I'm cold and I don't realize that I can fix it by putting a jacket on. So he asked me, said, "Sunny, can you tase me? So he pulls out this stun gun and goes "Bzz, bzz.

So I tased him, and he goes—and he goes to sleep. I'm, like, "Wow! He was a leader on the team. He was Mike Webster. And then to be down to a place of poverty, a place where, you know, your brain can't function to finish a sentence without some help from Ritalin or whatever you need to function for a short period of time. I'm not saying I was different than that. I'm just saying— the things we do to one another, OK—. Hell, I don't know what I'm saying. I'm just tired and confused right now, that's why I say I can't really— I can't say it the way I want to say it.

I could answer this real easy at other times, but right now, I'm just tired. He wasn't the same person. It was— it was like, you know, a picture of him that was just shattered into a million pieces. In , he went to see a lawyer. He would just go off on the tangents at that point. It was pretty obvious, actually, the first interview that he had some type of cognitive impairment. And is it related to football? His claim for disability was filed with the National Football League's retirement board.

The head of the Disability Committee is the commissioner himself, so it's very much a creature of the NFL. He played for nearly 20 years in a brutal and punishing sport, and you know, this is what's going on with him. Why would you fight that? What possible motive? Westbrook concurs with everything that the four other doctors have found and agrees that absolutely, there's no question that Mike Webster's injuries are football-related and that he appears to be have significant cognitive issues, brain damage, as a result of having played football.

They granted Webster monthly disability payments. Webster is currently totally and permanently disabled. And in fact, when you talk about that later with Fitzsimmons, he describes that as the sort of proverbial smoking gun. The NFL's own retirement board linked playing football and dementia. At the time, it was something the league would not admit publicly. And Webster felt he'd never received the acknowledgment that his years in the NFL had caused his problems.

He'd say it was like David and Goliath, over and over, because it was. He was taking on something that was bigger than him. He took on this battle for the right reasons. He was the right person to do it. Unfortunately, it cost us everything. Stand by all cameras. Ready with slow motion and isolated—.