Mike Adamle's struggle and his crusade: 'I can feel the decline every single day'
Mike Adamle Tribune
The Adamles rely on routines  but one small problem can send  Mike  into a spiral. Impulsivity  frustration and anger set in. While Kim was trying to figure out his location   Mike  hung up on her.
She called the NBC Sports desk  where  Mike  had worked until  he  went on leave in 2016  a year before  he  retired in March  and asked if someone could go out and see if  he  was wandering near NBC Tower  put  him  in a taxi and send  him  home.
 Mike Adamle  admitted during  his  Tribune interview that  he  sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night thinking about  his  mortality.
“You pop up like this. It’s hard not to  it happens to a zillion people every day on the planet Earth ”  he  said. “I’ll be gone. I’d like to make that a little longer and I definitely don’t want to spend it in an old folks home; that’s never going to happen. So we just keep on going until.”
 Mike Adamle   the retired Bear and former NBC-5 sportscaster  delivers a comedy monologue about his dementia  which doctors say is likely due to CTE. (Phil Thompson/Chicago Tribune)  Mike Adamle   the retired Bear and former NBC-5 sportscaster  delivers a comedy monologue about his dementia  which doctors say is likely due to CTE. (Phil Thompson/Chicago Tribune) SEE MORE VIDEOS
At the second annual CTE conference at Boston University in early November   Adamle  was adamant when asked how  he  would make the game safer. “I said  ‘Listen  if you have some (expletive) father grabbing you or coach that’s grabbing you and attacking your masculinity get rid of him! Don’t even let that guy coach anymore!’ ”
The Adamles rely on routines  but one small problem can send  Mike  into a spiral. Impulsivity  frustration and anger set in. While Kim was trying to figure out his location   Mike  hung up on her.
She called the NBC Sports desk  where  Mike  had worked until  he  went on leave in 2016  a year before  he  retired in March  and asked if someone could go out and see if  he  was wandering near NBC Tower  put  him  in a taxi and send  him  home.
 Mike Adamle  admitted during  his  Tribune interview that  he  sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night thinking about  his  mortality.
“You pop up like this. It’s hard not to  it happens to a zillion people every day on the planet Earth ”  he  said. “I’ll be gone. I’d like to make that a little longer and I definitely don’t want to spend it in an old folks home; that’s never going to happen. So we just keep on going until.”
 Mike Adamle   the retired Bear and former NBC-5 sportscaster  delivers a comedy monologue about his dementia  which doctors say is likely due to CTE. (Phil Thompson/Chicago Tribune)  Mike Adamle   the retired Bear and former NBC-5 sportscaster  delivers a comedy monologue about his dementia  which doctors say is likely due to CTE. (Phil Thompson/Chicago Tribune) SEE MORE VIDEOS
At the second annual CTE conference at Boston University in early November   Adamle  was adamant when asked how  he  would make the game safer. “I said  ‘Listen  if you have some (expletive) father grabbing you or coach that’s grabbing you and attacking your masculinity get rid of him! Don’t even let that guy coach anymore!’ ”