Tuesday's health and safety news from the world of football:
- and wrote about Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman and his inspiring advertisement for Duracell. Coleman is the NFL's only deaf player.
- Defensive lineman Robert Geathers, despite being injured the entire season with a torn tricep, won the Cincinnati Bengals' Ed Block Courage Award, .
- about area parents getting involved in awareness sessions to prevent spinal cord injuries.
- about the impact of getting teenagers to stay home after suffering a concussion.
- about how the concussion bill in Mississippi could pass a Senate vote, possibly making the state the last one to pass a youth head injury bill.
-- Bill Bradley, contributing editor
