I KNOW YOU’RE TIRED OF ME.

08.22.12

The consequences of head injuries are bad for players. They might be worse for their wives and families . . . as Gena Pitts sat at her kitchen table and wrote down her husband’s responses to questions from Sporting News, she knew some of the answers. But she didn’t know he was having headaches, and writing that down made her pen shake. “It smacked me in the face when I filled out that questionnaire, to be honest with you. That’s the first time I’ve heard him say it,” she says.