FORT WORTH, Texas — When Marion Barber died last week, many former players, and his ex-teammates, speculated that the game he played with Godzilla ferocity was a root cause.
Without access to the brain, we will never know exactly what happened to Marion Barber. His family said that he did not want his brain available for study.
His former teammate, defensive back Terence Newman, told Tyler Dunne of GoLongTD.com he bumped into Barber three years ago and, “He looked bad. He looked like he wasn’t there, like he was a different person, like he couldn’t function. ...