thanks to all with the wisdom to support us…it could be YOU next in your career…disability contracts are there for our peace of mind, a safety net- and the NFL spends millions each year (paid out of our OWN RETIREMENT FUND!!!) to deny all benefits- ONLY FOUR (4) concussion related claim approvals in the history of this most violent sport since the gladiators…this is about billionaires bilking taxpayers and retired players and buying justice by overtly corrupt and fraudulent means in court and Congress…like war criminals, they feel smug in their invincability, but then finally see a fair courtroom that they cannot buy off…
be well everyone,
Brent Boyd

Actually – the NFLPA have been a bunch of greedy bastards also. They should be helping out their predecessors much more than they are. Back in the 60′s for example – they made piddlings compared to today’s players.

Had the NFL been more pro-active – the blood sucking lawyers might not have gotten involved, but that’s what it is now.

From a “reformed- recovering” blood sucker.

Imagine a mine owner telling its employees, the miners, that they studied the dangers of coal dust inhalation and found it to not be a long term health risk….

Fast forward to lots of lung and breathing complications, is the mine owner free of guilt?

The NFL only admitted the risks of concussion AFTER the legal fallout became an imminent issue! Don’t hate the NFL, it’s a buisness and is (rightly or wrongly) guided by the bottom line. But don’t hate the players either, they were lied to and are pissed!

The reality is the NFL will never survive the cost structure if the BILLIONS paid in player salaries over the last 50 years isn’t enough and now soft money needs to be added on top to pay off every lawsuit. There is no way any contact sport will survive the cost.

It’s hilarious that you can still trot out the old, worn out management/labor issues and apply it here. Half of the BILLIONS the NFL makes has to go out in salaries, and yet it’s not enough. Multi-millionaires being clamped down on by the “billionaire man”. I think there’s more than enough out of the players’ end to make a provision for possible long term effects. But then again those bottles of Cristal in the VIP rooms don’t buy themselves. It’s made all the more laughable that there is a direct correlation between the time the taxpayers started to get soaked to subsidize sports and when player salaries began to balloon.

As for the old guys before the money skyrocketed? They should get a cut of the model today when they haven’t contributed to it? Even the layer of equity that came into being during their tenure has been distributed and disappated. Just exactly whom do they sue? If the burden is placed on the modern NFL, it simply will come out of the pocket of the current consumer.

Again, in short, if the burden of cost is put on the owners and the consumers, the NFL will not be able to continue, in which case The Goose Laying The Golden Eggs will up and die.

Hey – I remember playing a game in college where I had a good first quarter (long catch, good tackle behind the line – went both ways when “men were men” )- and then mid-way through the 4th quarter – asked in the huddle – how long to halftime, as I needed a blow.

When is the last time a business voluntarily took care of it’s employees who were injured during the course of their employment?

Hmmm – lets see: I believe the mines were the first, then the mills – and what – now the NFL is voluntarily sharing it’s huge wealth with those that went before and paved the way for today’s huge paydays/great entertainment.

Sure – the Billionaire owners will gladly hand out some of their largesse to take care of the medical problems of the former players. Just ask a bunch of the way old time players how much they have been helped.

Ya know. It’s not like the NFL can’t afford to do more.

Geesh.

jackm79, has it right;
read up on Ted Johnson’s life post NE Pats- he is a complete mess, and I know it ain’t just him suffering…

It is not a money grab. all you morons should spent a week in there shoes. You would want to kill yourself. The sleepless nights, the constant ringing in your ears. The pain in your neck that goes all the way down to your fingers. Same thing in your lower back and legs., h
The thought in your head that the only way to stop all of this is a bullet. Luckily for most guys the voices in there heads talk them out of that. You people sit in this message board and say these guys are ruinnig the game…..THIS GAME HAS DESTROYED MANY MENS LIVES. Shame on you posters. Go follow one of these guys and check their quality of life.
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??? These men were not forced to play the game. They made the choice because they were better compensated than they otherwise would have been. Save your sympathy for those who were or currently are on some battlefield actually risking life and limb so you can sit on your pompous fat a$$ and type that gibberish you’ve just put out.

I feel sorry for the guy but … did he play in college? High school? Grade school? Yet he expects money from the NFL? Why, because they have the deepest pockets? I guess he never understood that repeated blows to your head could be detrimental to your health. At least he didn’t understand it while he was collecting his paychecks.

Morons.

if this lawsuit sets a precedence, I should probably sue everybody

1.)Medical evidence of concussion effects in the later parts of life is relatively new. No one could have known the effects concussions could have before the medical scientists knew.

2.)To get to the NFL, you usually have to play years of football in Pop Warner/Mighty Mite, High School and the NCAA. Concussions can and most certainly do happen at every level of football. The major difference being that the NFL actually paid you to play where as the lower leagues usually require you to pay to play. (You can count college if you consider a college degree and/or illegal benefits payment).

You can’t sue Deer Park because their water is wet. Whether from the tap, bottle or ocean, water has always been wet; football has always been violent.

First, as a player in high school and college, I knew there was a risk of injury at any time. And it happened, leaving me with bad knees and a lot more. I knew all of that going in. So did every other person that ever put on pads.

But, the long term brain injuries that these and many other players are horrific. Men in their 50s-60s with the mental capacity of 90 year old men. They didn’t know those risks. And I bet the league did. I am sure that a lot of buried brain studies will turn up. It is always the cover up that matters. At the least, the NFL should greatly expand their health care coverage for those suffering these injuries. And drastically increase testing and monitoring ALL players. Current, and retired.

They wanna milk the current popularity of the game for their own benefit. This is about greed, plain and simple.