Here is a good summary of one of the larger law suits pending against the NFL:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/29/sports/football/concussion-case-nears-key-phase-for-nfl.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Some excerpts: ****************** "Before the N.F.L. regular season begins next Thursday, the league will get a clearer picture of what may be its biggest worry: the lawsuit brought by more than 4,500 retired players alleging that the N.F.L. intentionally misled them about the dangers of head injuries....given the stakes — billions of dollars in potential damages, a risk of lasting harm to the N.F.L.’s image and a possibility of Congressional intervention — her ruling will be widely watched and most likely appealed, perhaps by both sides. 'It has to be in the Mount Rushmore of things that keep Roger Goodell awake at night,' the lawyer Scott A. Andresen said, referring to the N.F.L.’s commissioner....Larry Schiffer, a lawyer representing Alterra America Insurance, which wrote one policy for one year for the N.F.L., told the judge that a settlement could cost $2.5 billion, a figure some legal experts consider conservative." ******************** I think that $2.5B figure is quite conservative. Depending on how this and similar law suites unfold, it is possible (not likely, but not beyond the realm of possibility) that the NFL will have to close up shop. One indicator of how serious this is for the NFL is that one of their better defenses is that the brain injuries the plaintiffs are complaining about are the result of prior trauma suffered before the entered the NFL - when they played college and high school football. Imagine the practical and PR problems for the league if a judge formally finds that dementia, early death and long term disability is fairly routinely caused by playing high school and college football? The NFL is good and truly fuc*ed on this. I heard Mike and Mike bitching about aspects of the new rules trying to limit the kinds of tackles that are allowed and wanted to scream though the screen. The NFL is desperately trying to make it seem like they are, and always have been, dedicated to player safety first and foremost. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
