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

I think many have missed the issue. It's not that the players have brain injuries from a violent sport years after playing the game, it's the fact the NFL allegedly had information to know it was probable and either hid it or did nothing to protect players from known risks.

Kidna like the Mcdonalds coffee that burned the 79 year old lady. The coffee was being served at 179 degrees, hot enought to cause severe burns to deep tissue within 2 seconds. Further and most important, there were OVER 700 documented complaint by people who had burned themselves also and nothing was done to address it. Study of comparable restaurants found that they served their coffee at much lower tempertures closer to 120 degrees.

All the complaints essentially allege that the NFL ignored studies and other evidence linking brain damage and football that date to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. One evokes the great coach Pop Warner, who in 1913 noted he had “many times seen cases where hard bumps on the head so dazed the player receiving them that he lost his memory for a time and had to be removed from the game.”

The players say the league even disputed its own studies. In 2007, retired Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson cast doubt on a link to brain damage in testimony before a congressional committee with comparisons to his father, who had Alzheimer’s disease but never played a professional sport.

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