By Drew Sherman ( October 27, 2017, 11:00 AM EDT) -- Recently, it has been made public that Aaron Hernandez, the disgraced former National Football League player, had stage three (out of four) chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) at the time of his death. He committed suicide by hanging himself with a bedsheet at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts, where he was serving a life sentence for first degree murder. CTE is a progressive degenerative disease found in people who have had a severe blow to the head or repeated blows to the head, and it is most recently known to be common among football players who suffer concussions or repeated blows to the head. In fact, the connection between concussions and CTE was the subject of a "based on a true story" feature film starring Will Smith as the doctor who linked football players to the disease, and the severe obstacles the NFL's "football-industrial complex" put before him in order to keep him from making his findings public....