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

clow1220 said

and you don't think the players ignored the risks themselves in favor of lots of money!! To me it just seems ridiculous to think that these players would not think there could be long term effects to repetitive head trauma. Boxers were already shown to have issues at the time these players were playing,

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If information was out there that the NFL knew about and wasn't shared with players, then they are not ignoring ALL the information. You can ignore information you don't know about.

Kinda like smoking, it clearly says on pack it can cause cancer. So people currently smoking are choosing to accept those risks. On the other hand, in 20th century. the cigarette companies knew well ahead of public that smoking led to numerous diseases such as emphysema or lung cancer. So those people early on that wanted to be cool like the Marlboro man and smoke, sure they knew smoking would make them short winded when doing strenuous activities and accepted those type of risks, but if all of them really knew what the true risks where, many would have chosen to not risk it. Further, it comes down to same fact that the companies knew the risks and hid it from public at all costs to avoid hurting their huge earnings.