NS.. ex-NFL players sue league... It's starting to make sense now (2 Viewers)

[State Of Affairs]

This is pure babble. No one made a decision to suffer brain damage. It happened because of football.

Omg!! Babble!!! You're telling me that running my head into a 300 pound man at full speed is smart and that there was no concern of long term injury...

Look.. I understand this is a big mess and I do see both sides but in the end, when do you walk away after willingly destroying your body?

I use to play basketball 3 times a week but when I got to the point that my ankles were swollen the next day, I stopped playing!!!!! I started playing golf...

At what point do these players have concussion after concussion and not decide to walk away. Take Barry Sandrs for instance, Jim Brown.. Guys how said enough is enough and I want to leave with my health...

The reason most of these guys stay is money... So they destroy their body for big money then sue for more when their hips are bad or traumatic brain injury...

At some point, the NFL should have a "play at your own risk" in the contracts.. Spell out the health care program and it is what it is.... If you don't want mud butt, don't drink the water in Mexico and if you don't want long term traumatic brain injuries, DON'T PLAY FOOTBALL... Or at the very least, quit after 4 years and get a regular job.

You say babble but say football causes brain injury.. So what's the solution Einstein? Based on your response, it's sue after you have brain injury!!! Mabe the smart thing is to avoid the thing that causes the injury.

Lol.. I just realized that if you were a scientist, you would try to develop a drug that helps a boxer recover faster after being knocked out in the ring... I'd try to develop a drug that helps you avoid the punch that knocked you out in the 1st place... Lol

 

[FFT22]

So now we're analogizing your Metry C-League basketball career and swollen ankles to ALS, Chronic Encephalopathy and TBI leading to suicide? Something tells me you don't quite grasp the scope of this.

Sorry 'bout your ALS, Steve, but I got these swollen ankles to tend to!

Omg!! Babble!!! You're telling me that running my head into a 300 pound man at full speed is smart and that there was no concern of long term injury...

Look.. I understand this is a big mess and I do see both sides but in the end, when do you walk away after willingly destroying your body?

I use to play basketball 3 times a week but when I got to the point that my ankles were swollen the next day, I stopped playing!!!!! I started playing golf...

At what point do these players have concussion after concussion and not decide to walk away. Take Barry Sandrs for instance, Jim Brown.. Guys how said enough is enough and I want to leave with my health...

The reason most of these guys stay is money... So they destroy their body for big money then sue for more when their hips are bad or traumatic brain injury...

At some point, the NFL should have a "play at your own risk" in the contracts.. Spell out the health care program and it is what it is.... If you don't want Judd butt, don't drink the water in Mexico and if you don't want long term traumatic brain injuries, DON'T PLAY FOOTBALL... Or at the very least, quit after 4 years and get a regular job

 

[State Of Affairs]

So now we're analogizing your Metry C-League basketball career and swollen ankles to ALS, Chronic Encephalopathy and TBI leading to suicide? Something tells me you don't quite grasp the scope of this.

Lol... What I'm trying to say is arguing with you is like arguing with my girlfriend. I'm talking about the subject and she's talking about some unrelated subject... You can probably find some misspelling in my post, why don't you find those and talk about em to make your point...

Good luck bro...

 

[El Caliente]

Where do you get off with that Metry-C league talk. We both know it was B, and it was just barely below A.

Like I pointed out, the guys suing are well do to, these are not your broke athlete variety. Not one Mark Brunnell among them. They are not in it for the money as much as they are in it for helping others. And if people's health does cause us to lose football will you really be upset? A sport over ones well being?

 

[Anteros77]

Do these billionaires really need that much more money that they can't even take care of the ones who destroyed their lives to build their fortunes?

 

[Alan]

Someone posted in another tread about back in 1905 the Government had to step in since there was so many fatalities and injuries playing football.

So people have KNOWN for over ONE HUNDRED years that football is dangerous. Lemme guess....in 10 years someone else is gonna sue and say they didn't know football was dangerous....unreal....simply unreal.

 

[FFT22]

Where do you get off with that Metry-C league talk. We both know it was B, and it was just barely below A.

BHAHAHAHAA. Bruh, Metry B-league is LE-GIT.

 

[FFT22]

Someone posted in another tread about back in 1905 the Government had to step in since there was so many fatalities and injuries playing football.

So people have KNOWN for over ONE HUNDRED years that football is dangerous. Lemme guess....in 10 years someone else is gonna sue and say they didn't know football was dangerous....unreal....simply unreal.

Right, back when they used to not wear helmets and run the flying V with the entire team and every single play was a running play. And 20 people died on the field because the game was so violent. There have been countless innovations since that time to make the game safer. God forbid players rely on those safety innovations to make the game safer.

 

[clow1220]

Soldiers cant sue the federal government, do your homework

 

[clow1220]

only once they have been released from duty can they sue and lets not even begin to compare the income of the two. U can chose to walk away from football anytime, not a military contract. I don't wanna sound like a bitter vet and am very proud to have sacrificed my well being for my country so it angers me when people that made millions to play a game filled with violence pretend they had no clue of the consequences. We may not have known of all the health risks when they were playing but i can assure u it doesn't take a genius to know if you continuously pound something it will break.

On a lighter note, is it wrong that I haven't even thought about family and Christmas cause I cant wait for Monday night to see the Dirty Turds fall.

 

[FFT22]

Soldiers cant sue the federal government, do your homework

They can and do sue the VA regularly though for benefits and medical care, which incidentally, is the same thing these players are suing the NFL for - money for medical care.

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1...eid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=lawsuits+agaisnt+the+va

I'm not likening the two. In fact, like I said, I think any analogy between military service for our country and any profession is flawed. They're apples and oranges. But if the point is that NFL players are acting entitled by filing suit, I'm just pointing out that vets do it too, and I don't have a problem with either.

 

[El Caliente]

But Kellen Winslow Jr. even told me he was a soldier.

 

[BigA3723]

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.

 

[FFT22]

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.

I would thumbs up this post all day long if I could. You hit the nail on the head.

 

[clow1220]

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,