Patriots Legend Nick Buoniconti Dies

New England Patriots legend and Hall of Fame linebacker Nick Buoniconti, who two years ago held an emotional news conference at which he said he had dementia and pledged to donate his brain to BU’s CTE Center, has died.

The Center, directed by Ann McKee—who is also a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and BU School of Medicine professor of neurology and pathology, chief of neuropathology at the VA Boston Healthcare System, and director of the brain banks for the Framingham Heart Study and BU’s Alzheimer’s Disease Center—released a statement on Wednesday: “We are profoundly saddened to learn of Nick Buoniconti’s passing. Nick was one of a kind, an NFL Hall of Fame legend whose impact on the field was remarkable, but whose impact off the field was even more so.”

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