But here’s one thing I notice – in not a single one of these news releases have I heard about ANY type of therapy the atheletes are going through.

They have tools and exercises to use for these symptoms. Why is there no discussion of this?

Translates to…..

Stephan Davis already broke.

They continued to play anyways.

It was their choice to play football in college, and it was their choice to play in the NFL. If they were hurt and didn’t feel that they could go back into the game and play, then they should have refused to go back in. PERIOD.

2nd point: Is he suing defenders who hit him helmet to helmet or hit him with cheapshots outside the defined rules of the game?

3rd point: Is he suing Michael Westbrook for punching him in the face?

4th point: He performed a dangerous job where he was well compensated (about 30 million not counting his 1st 4 years and any licensing and sponsorship money)

Uhhh, wrong. Those risks weren’t presented to them, hence the merit of the lawsuit.

One of the problems is that when you want something (money, women, cars, fame) at a young age you will do anything to get it like running 20mph into a guy like Ray Lewis or James Harrison. You would work out everyday and do hitting drills all day—headache or no headache—–but after the money, women, cars, and fame have disappeared you begin to disrespect the process and the SACRIFICE it took to get there. I’m not saying these guys are faking their individual problems but to forget why you did ANY OF IT in the first place is the biggest memory loss anyone of them could suffer. IMO a lot of these players knew what they were doing but some of them did not really love the game, they love the “side items”, once those items disappear they like to re-think life and the price of playing football for once as a “NORMAL” person and by then its way too late. Millions suffer from the same ailments but don’t have a job to sue, they continue living life as a normal person knowing they never received the money, cars, or fame to attach to their injury/ailment.

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Yes, medical journals are just littered with examples of former football players who suddenly forgot their own name aged 28.

Pretty sure every married, 38 year old man has these syptoms as well.

Pretty sure every married, 38 year old man has these adoptions as well.

Sometimes my friends say “Remember when I told you…” and I don’t remember.

Sometimes payments slip my mind. So do other things.

But I want to see some PROOF that this is related to playing NFL football.

PROOF.

And I want to see more PROOF that preventative steps were NOT taken by the NFL after YOU signed up for the NFL.

ENOUGH is ENOUGH.

i told her if these lawsuits ruin the nfl im gonna blow that place up.

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Man, you’d better not screw up your relationship w her. Otherwise, you might get to hang out w Homeland Security agents and take a mandatory vacay to Guantanamo Bay.

Everyone who signs up for football knows it’s the perfect forum to destroy anyone in the opposite colored jerseys – and the opponents are trying to take your head off. Unless you’re a Kicker, that’s football. There’s a well-known element of risk involved.

Statubg that, not sure suing the NFL is the right way to direct blame – but even so, how do you not feel for Davis? Dude is only 38 – was always a class act.

Wonder why there haven’t been any good heavyweight boxers in awhile? Once Dementia Pugilistica was proven as fact athletes abandoned boxing for other sports..primarily football.

While not all football players will develop Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), the perception will give pause to paarents to allow their sons to play the sport.

Football, king of the sporting hill now, will be radically different in about 10-15 years…about the time it takes for the new generation of players to no longer be there.

Oh, wait….

You don’t sue the person when they shoot a loved one and end up in jail for life. You sue the gun manufacturer for making the gun because they have the money. The reason they’re suing the NFL and not the NCAA or their high school program is because they have nowhere near the money that the NFL has.