Chabal played in an era with no mandatory head injury assessments, no structured concussion protocols, and a simple cultural rule: if you didn't get up, someone else took your spot. The game treated brain trauma as acceptable overhead, and the bill is now coming due across an entire generation of professionals. The physical toll didn't break players' bodies — it erased their identities.
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