Ye Royal Head Injury

the king with his favorite wife, Jane Seymour, and Prince Edward

As we watch the Super Bowl and large grown men running into each other and hitting the ground, head bouncing on the turf, consider the latest theory about England's King Henry VIII. This theory has it that the monarch's fits of temper and other undesirable traits, such as headaches and reported impotence, may have been the result of head trauma sustained during jousting matches. As senior author of this study Yale behavioral neurologist Arash Salardini said, "It is intriguing to think that modern European history may have changed forever because of a blow to the head": http://phys.org/news/2016-02-henry-viii-brain-injury-nfl.html