The Philadelphia Eagles cornerback, who became the first Black man to work full-time as a sports analyst on national television, is the latest football player diagnosed with CTE. Cross died in 2021.
"It's important to highlight cases like Irv Cross' because he was able to live a long and successful life where CTE didn't dramatically impair him," he said."But at the end, it was a struggle."
Cross joined CBS in 1971, becoming the first Black network sports show anchor. He left the network in 1994, and later served as athletic director at Idaho State and Macalester College in Minnesota. In 2009, he received the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. He was married to Liz for 34 years when he died.Cross said her husband never experienced regret over his football career.
"He would have done it again in a heartbeat," she said."But he didn't think kids should play football."As for diagnosed concussions, Cross said her husband told her he did suffer from several during his playing career but did not keep count. He suffered so many head injuries in his rookie season that his Eagles teammates called him"Paper Head."
Irv told his wife that after a blow to his head that almost caused him to swallow his tongue, doctors said if he suffered another concussion"he would die."Liz Cross said she wanted to remember the joy their young grandson brought Irv over his final years and not dwell on how she had to watch the man she loved slip away.
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