Injuries on the job.

If former players are not viewed as part of the union and have no say in CBA negotiations how can the league argue that they are bound by the rules of the CBA or even past CBA?

Lots of gray there but maybe someone smarter than me can help explain.

“The league’s effort comes from an obsession by corporate interests to avoid the jury system, which remains one of the few entities over which the rich and powerful have little or no power to avoid losing a chunk of their riches. And so if there’s an avenue for diverting the process from a group of ordinary citizens, whom many of the one percent regard as too simple or emotional to properly and fairly apply the law when confronted with sympathetic plaintiffs and affluent defendants, it’s worth the extra money to try to position the proceedings to be resolved by an arbitrator, who will be far less inclined to be influenced by the human consequences of concussions and far more inclined to apply the letter of the law when assessing the various rights and responsibilities.”

I can’t believe you wrote the exact thing that I was thinking.

Yes, the best medical staff that money can buy to place the interests of the teams and league above that of their patients.

The NFL knows that it will lose in court, as it usually does.

No judge – or member of the public – should buy the nonsense being sold by the NFL lawyers.

The NFL has the best equipment and medical staff available — it’s unlikely that was the case at any lower level.