Proving that the NFL’s conduct was a “contributing factor” in causing the injury is all that’s required for liability, even if prior conditions also contributed. Suing the NCAA might require suing all the individual schools, college careers are shorter and thus exposure to the risk is shorter, and there might be a lack of evidence that the NCAA was aware of the risks to the extent the NFL was.

“And the only given we have is that the lawyers involved will make out like bandits as they spend years and tons of the former players’ and NFL’s money arguing whether it is just common sense or not that when you repeated fun your head at full speed into a wall that you might just get a concussion”

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these are contingency fee cases, the lawyers are taking a big risk of getting nothing.

This country’s number one, most prized and coddled entities are corporations, which is what the NFL is. The corporations (better yet if you’re a global one), are citizens too, you know. There’s no way the NFL will be left to defend themselves against lowly riff-raff. Never have, never will.

How come we don’t hear about retired players bringing lawsuits against the NCAA for same thing? Even if they do win this lawsuit how can they prove it? Couldn’t the NFL just say they may have contributed to existing conditions from years of football played before they entered the NFL?
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That’s because it’s all about money. You always stick your hand in the deepest pocket, in this case the NFL.