Comments on: Report: NFL retirement board paid disability for concussions

By: ubummer

ubummer — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:21:23 +0000

It’s a damn shame. The NFL didn’t have any legal obligation to help those guys but they did because guys like Webster were in such bad shape after the Steelers and their fans abandoned him after years of loyal service. Now the NFL might get punished for doing the right thing when they didn’t have to. No good deed goes unpunished.

By: cometkazie

cometkazie — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:59:24 +0000

Sports involve physical risk. So does riding a motorcycle. Society decides which are worth the risk.

Pro hockey players didn’t wear helmets and goalies didn’t wear face masks. Now they do.

My pinkie still sticks out at an odd angle thanks to a dislocation playing prep football.

By: blitzthepig

blitzthepig — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:58:43 +0000

Why did Al Toon and Merril Hoge retire from the NFL? Did they get career ending payments as well as payments from NFL Retirement Board?

By: xxwhodatxx

xxwhodatxx — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:18:15 +0000

Look who’s engaged in a cover up now…Goodell should suspend himself indefinitely.

By: hawkforlife

hawkforlife — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:13:18 +0000

The scary thing here is not a raise in ticket prices and more if this suit succeeds it’s the fact that football in general could be designated as an unsafe environment workplace. The end of football from the Pros to PeeWee.

By: sb44champs

sb44champs — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:02:36 +0000

The league started to admit that players could actually get permanent brain injuries in the NFL starting in 2009…
And yeah, it was just a big gigantic coincidence that the so-called ‘bounty’ investigation started at that same time (2009)… Roger GODell = Pure Evil

By: onebucplace

onebucplace — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:00:37 +0000

I hope some lawyers make some money off, they’re the real victims here having to wait years to get their millions.

By: tabdanger

tabdanger — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:59:22 +0000

What makes me sick is instead of going after NCAA and Colleges who are just as much at fault everyone is aiming at the NFL. Just because they are the cash cow. College Football is getting away clean, and never even paid players a paycheck. Forget the fake “free education” Most of the guys with a shot at the NFL aren’t there for the education. I bet a lot of the concussion problems started before they got to the NFL.

By: skoobyfl

skoobyfl — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:43:36 +0000

Maybe Travis Henry’s 19 kids have a chance at seeing some money.

By: buffalose

buffalose — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:31:11 +0000

So they are being punished because they compensated players from injury they got during football? So that helps the retired to get money for injuries ?

By: alewatcher

alewatcher — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:29:06 +0000

“Professional football players do not sustain frequent repetitive blows to the brain on a regular basis,” members of the league’s committee wrote in a December 2005 paper in the medical journal Neurosurgery.

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Say what?

By: rockthered1286

rockthered1286 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:03:29 +0000

“….the retirement board is independent, and that its rulings “are not made by the NFL or by the NFL Players Association.”
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So if they’re independent from the NFL and the NFLPA, how can the players use this against the NFL?

Truth be told I don’t think I’d be so bitter and against the suit if 75% of those filing weren’t just doing it for extra money (see Lewis, Jamal) instead of actually devastating injuries.

By: clownsfan

clownsfan — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:58:42 +0000

KA-CHING. All us fans need to brace ourselves for the pending sweeping increase of price for ANYTHING related to the NFL.

By: nygrwy

nygrwy — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:55:05 +0000

bout time