NS.. ex-NFL players sue league... It's starting to make sense now

MNSaint said

I'm not naming any names but I'm friends with a former player who was injured. He was given some very bad information from the team doctors which, in any other industry, would have qualified as malpractice. (thisinformation led to him being injured again more severely) This terrible information cost him millions of dollars since his contract was cancelled and he was traded and was forced to re-sign at league minimum. He was unable to sue because the nfl has an employment contract that players must sign which impedes them from suing another employee of the nfl. He was shafted pretty badly and it's unfortunate that the doctor, the team, and the nfl can't be held accountable for what happened to him. That's my $.02

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I am relatively speaking a nobody, but I have two old college friends that played pro ball and they both say that team trainers and doctors essentially threw your butt out there as long as you could answer a couple of questions, even if your ears were ringing.

Add that onto the fact that Joe Horn and other recent NFL vets are saying that they were given painkilling drugs (Toradol) that are now causing serious after-effects related to head traumas and you should be able to see that this isn't just some simple issue about players trying to get something over on the owners when they "already knew the risks." Instead it is a complex issue involving new knowledge and how to incorporate it into the evolution of the game and the game's treatment of past players.