Posted on 05/24/2016 9:19:08 PM PDT by scrabblehack
A new congressional report has found that the NFL sought to improperly influence a major government study on connections between football and brain disease, according to documents obtained by ESPN's "Outside The Lines." (Update: the NFL has rejected the conclusions of the report.) The congressional research report indicates the NFL had given the National Institutes of Health a $30 million unrestricted gift in 2012, but later sought to pull $16 million in funding from that gift away from one researcher and reroute it to researchers working on the league's own brain injury committee. When the NIH declined to redirect the funding, the NFL balked at paying for the study, despite having signed documents it would do so. Taxpayers were thus on the hook to pay for the study.
When funding gets pulled (whether public or private), what I have known to happen is that the staff get laid off and told that if funding resumes, they will get a callback.
Now the lead researcher is often a tenured professor and thus is paid through other means. It's the technicians who get laid off.
I am not excusing the NFL's behavior here. But I do take issue with ESPN's spin on it.
If you stand back to view this...once the study is produced and accepted...it is only a matter of months before someone goes through the high school and college system in some state, and out-laws contact football. Maybe three years....maybe five years....but there will at least one state that makes it illegal.
At that point, it’s only a matter of a couple of years before you have most states forbidding it. Where will the NFL get young talented players? My guess is that the NFL knows that they’ve got trouble coming and will be lucky if they survive.
What could be easier than buying off the government? That’s how we ended up with Obamacare, Benghazi Internet Video, the Iran Nuke deal ...and let’s not forget Global Warming.
ESPN is trying to cook their own golden goose. The NFL is a cash cow to all networks.
..,.meanwhile BOXING...in all forms, where the goal is to administer a concussion ( knockout) is hardly ever mentioned ...could it be because most participants are minorities?...or the enormous amounts of $$$$ the networks get from pay per view...influenced HA!
Hilda...5 Arab nations 100 million
21 million from wall street over two years for 20 minute speaches...Russia spent millions
buying Hilda’s “influence” when it comes to government owned land for mining plutonium..... no mention of
this kind of influence at yahoo...right!
Wasn’t this a minority report?
It was presented to the ranking Democrat, yes.
Grounds for dismissal of presentation.
With Zero at the wheel, do you blame them?
90% of Football is Half Mental!
No, it’s because boxing is functionally dead as a sport.
It’s going to be insurance companies that will eventually put the kibosh on football.
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