Aaron Hernandez: We may finally have hit the time football itself goes on trial!

The news came across Thursday morning.

After a study done on Aaron Hernandez' brain after his suicide, it was concluded that not only did Aaron Hernandez have CTE, but Yahoo! Sports and Dan Wetzel reported that Hernandez was found with sufficient signs of CTE to conclude he had Stage III CTE with symptoms consistent with a football player who died at age 67.

Hernandez was 27 when he committed suicide in prison.

Hernandez was 23 when he murdered Odin Lloyd in 2013.  He had played three seasons with the New England Patriots, only 44 games in total.

He played 40 games at the University of Florida.  Though he was believed to be the strongest and biggest football player in the state of Connecticut, word is that he still suffered multiple concussions due to hits on the field.

It appears that, at some point in high school, those concussions began the road to CTE, violence, murder, and, eventually, suicide.

The findings were reported by an attorney for the Hernandez estate, with a lawsuit that Hernandez' family has filed against the NFL and the Patriots.

The fact is, that's the wrong party to file as plaintiff, for several reasons:

First, it would be easier to deny the family and estate any real damages, because "Aaron Hernandez is a MURDERER!"  As I well know in my own life, criminals are seen, by default, as all but civilly impeached entities.  So if the family, even rightly, has case or consideration against someone, it might be impossible for a court to go above the appeal to the person...

Second, it would be easy to stack a jury, in that type of case, with football fans, with the threat of the end or the neutering of their National Religion over their heads.

Third, the natural corruption of the American Political Justice System vis-a-vis anything that might be Too Big To Fail.

BUT...

What happens if the families and estates of Hernandez' victims, the at least three men who are believed to have been murdered by Hernandez (Odin Lloyd -- for which Hernandez was convicted, and Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado), decide they might want to follow the CTE lead here?

It might FINALLY provide the impetus for a large enough stage for football itself to be brought to trial (the NFL and Patriots would probably be sued because of the printing press of money the NFL has become!!!), because the fact is that Hernandez probably played only 10 or so years of organized football (3 in Florida, 3 in the NFL, 4 in high school, and then how much?).

As the Yahoo! article notes, was he already on the highway to Hell, as it were, by the time he sucker-punched a bar manager at age 17 in Florida?

Could we finally have a place where football itself is put on trial for this type of thing, in a large enough setting which cannot be ignored by this football-addicted nation?

Stay tuned.