[OK, SNL writers, here is Sat.'s skit.] The NFL is partnering with Boston University brain researchers who have been critical of the league's stance on concussions, The Associated Press learned today.

The league now plans to encourage current and former NFL players to agree to donate their brains to the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, which has said it found links between repeated head trauma and brain damage in boxers, football players and, most recently, a former NHL player.