Posted on 12/23/2011 7:10:08 AM PST by Libloather
Four ex-players sue NFL alleging brain damage
Reuters – 16 hrs ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four former National Football League players, including two Pro Bowl players, sued the league over brain injuries that they say left them facing medical problems years after their careers ended.
Dorsey Levens and Jamal Lewis, both named to the annual All-Star Pro Bowl, as well as Fulton Kuykendall and Ryan Stewart, filed the lawsuit against the National Football League and NFL Properties LLC on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.
The suits are the latest in a series filed against the NFL in recent months by former players who say the league did not do enough to protect them from concussions.
The Atlanta suit alleges the NFL knew as early as the 1920s of the potential for concussions but only made them public in 2010.
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Jamal (prison time for cocaine distribution) Lewis is so damned stupid, he has to take his pants off to count to eleven. How can you expect a guy like him to know that you could be injured playing football? The NFL conspired to hide the risks, and now they have to give Lewis mo better cash.
Sue the university you played at, the high school, the pop warner football league, your parents, yourself.
Suh Ndamukong
Sue the boy named
Honestly, I suspect that is what this is all about. Once the safety nannies get a hold of this and do some fake studies, you can bet the rules will kill off traditional football as we know it.
This is like a pornstar suing a director because she got herpes.
No longer will you be taught to spear your opponent, any blocking of uninvolved players is penalized, and you stay on the field for offense and defense, thereby eliminating the low stamina fat men. Injuries occur, but are not as frequent nor as often crippling.
Welcome to the progenitor of America football - rugby.
“Put on body armor and run at each other, head first, at 100% of your ubermensch speed, with hundreds of pounds of body mass centered on vulnerable joints, ligaments, and cranial components, and the expected result is what? Take off the armor, realize that your impact on another player will affect you equally, or at least significantly, and the game does change.
No longer will you be taught to spear your opponent, any blocking of uninvolved players is penalized, and you stay on the field for offense and defense, thereby eliminating the low stamina fat men. Injuries occur, but are not as frequent nor as often crippling.
Welcome to the progenitor of America football - rugby. “
Yep, they need to go back to leather helmets and no face guards. Maybe they will think twice about spearing another player and concentrate more on wrapping them up instead. You see many players nowadays that can’t even tackle properly instead relying on debilitating hits like they are guided missiles.
Occupational hazard; duly indemnified while active.
Agree. Other than the players who actually did the hitting, I think you have to go after the coaches who taught or didn’t teach proper technique or told them to get back in the game because they only “got their bell run.”. And the fans who cheered the big hits and the networks that showed them over and over on highlights.
Or you could ask the players what they thought would happen if they kept taking headshots.
As Jerry Seinfeld said, “if you have to wear a helmet, you probably shouldn’t do it” or words to that effect.
Paterno argued for years that the facemask should be done away with - that it made players fearless when leading with their heads.
Maybe the players with memory loss will forget all about this.
NFL? I played in the NFL? What’s NFL?
Go here, scroll down, click ‘concussion videos.’ I thin there are eight of them. Informative.
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/sports_health/concussion-center.aspx
Given his political career, I was looking for Heath Shuler.
Football is dangerous. Who knew?
Well, you can make an argument about whether the NFL had superior knowledge, about whether the NFL had a duty to make that knowledge available to players, about whether the players had a right to rely upon the NFL for information . . . I could go on, but then again, my mind is warped by being law-school edumacatified.
On the other hand (we lawyers have more hands than a statue of Kali), i'd think a reasonable person would have enough knowledge that collisions which take you from a full-speed run to a dead stop can hurt your head. Like running repeatedly into a garage door. And that an individual team and its trainers have a better knowledge of your condition and more duty to you - if anyone has it to you - than the nebulous NFL.
And there are exceptions to Workers' Compensation law - and they vary from state to state. And you have the issue of an injury caused in another state by a party that isn't another employee of the NFL or the injured player's employer, (in the case of an away game) in a location that isn't the player's employer's place of work. And the NFL doesn't employ any of these players, so while Workers' Compensation laws may protect the individual teams, it wouldn't protect the NFL.
Let's grab some guacamole and blue corn chips and talk about this.
I would’ve played football but my grades were too good.
A bicycle helmet would be a crushed piece of foam after most NFL hits and have to be thrown away - BUT it would have absorbed a lot of the impact.
Why they’re using armor modeled after medieval knights in the 21st century is beyond me.
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