Alexander: Leigh Steinberg digs in on football’s ‘ticking time bomb’

Leigh Steinberg was representing NFL players in an era when TV announcers, instead of saying that a player had gone into concussion protocol as they do now, were just as likely to say he’d gotten his bell rung.

No, we didn’t know as much then about traumatic brain injuries as we do now.

“In the late ’80s, I’m representing half the starting quarterbacks in the NFL, and they keep getting hit in the head,” Steinberg said in a phone conversation last week.

“And we go to doctors and ask...