When the Game Ends: A Personal Look at Brain Injuries, CTE, and Life After Football

Presenter Information

Kelly Lytle

Location

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Start Date

20-3-2015 1:15 PM

End Date

20-3-2015 1:30 PM

Description

• Primary Theme: Present a human and personal look at CTE, concussion risks in sports, and life after football through real-life stories of my father and the influence of those stories on my family and me
• Secondary Theme: The reason we must continue to raise awareness, educate, and facilitate dialogue around the subject of head trauma in sports is that despite football’s barbaric nature it does teach valuable lessons that should not be discarded in the conversation.
• Note: My talk will leverage personal stories with concrete examples of the challenges my father faced.

Speaker Information

Kelly Lytle is the Author of To Dad, From Kelly. In 4th grade, Kelly Lytle lied to his parents for three months before confessing that he broke their television remote control. He’s been obsessed with storytelling ever since. Kelly graduated from Princeton University in 2005 and currently works for Findaway, a digital content and technology solutions company. His first book, To Dad, From Kelly, is an honest and emotional memoir about his relationship with his late father, former University of Michigan All-American and Denver Bronco running back Rob Lytle. From a uniquely personal perspective, Kelly writes often about the challenge of supporting football after seeing the crippling mental and physical impact the sport had on his father. Kelly lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and you can visit him at www.kellylytle.com.