An absolutely misleading stat. Those 79 bodies were not examined at random. Those bodies were donated by the families of those players who suspected the disease with the motivation to sue for damages if the diagnosis they sought came true. Go examine thousands of dead football players at random and then do the study. Maybe it'd still be 96% but you'd have more relevant meaningful findings. _
Here is a better question, if one of us owned a business, knowingly withheld information that eventually lead to the death of your own employee(s), you would find yourself in criminal court. So why arent these owners being criminally charged right now? Its a load of shit honestly, they allowed to get away with the death individual, but if any of us did the same thing, we are going to jail...... oh and it isnt odd that the "league of denial" book was basically not even discussed anywhere, ESPN was part of the documentary yet they pulled out.....I wonder how much the owners paid all these media networks, including non-nfl networks to not discuss it at all?
How am I supporting murder. I watch FOX/CBS/NBC broadcast. Those networks did not withhold the information.....and the money they get from my viewership is their money, and they are allowed to spend it in any way they so choose which could include buying the rights to the game but it could also include paying the salaries of TV hosts on their news shows that cover only news stories....right?
Do all people who suffer brain damage commit suicide? You have to link those two as the absolute cause and effect. Can you?
No Soxxx, you are watching the NFL not the local evening news. So your viewership contributes to NFL ratings and continued funding of the NFL by the networks. You essentially are vouching your support for murder.
Alright prove with evidence the money they make from my view goes right back into the NFL, and not the evening news cast's salary.....
Obviously they make a profit from their broadcast that goes into the operation of the station, that doesn't change the fact that it is profit derived from interest in the NFL that the NFL also receives a profit from. You are supporting both the station an the NFL.
I don't really get why it's a surprise to anyone that people who make a living smashing their bodies and heads into others will have long term problems with their bodies. The owners "withheld" information that should've been pretty fuckin obvious to me.... If you work in a coal mine are you surprised to hear you could get black lung?
If its no big deal then why did the owners withhold it? you don't withhold information, life threatening information, unless you are trying to hide something.
of course they were trying to hide it to an extent. What I am saying is, is what they were trying to hide really something people didn't know?? You want to tell me people played football for generations thinking they wouldn't have long term problems with their brains and bodies? Of course not. People aren't stupid - there was the inherent risk all along that they were taking. (and being compensated generously for I would add) To use my coal miner analogy. You really think mine owners are giving all the information they can to your everyday miner about the risks of black lung disease? Statistics regarding how many miners get black lung? Paying for research into how black lung occurs?? Hell no. They obviously want a safe workplace but most do so based around the bare minimum regulations of the government's workplace safety requirements like OSHA. --- and the miners themselves obviously know they are at risk for black lung disease anyway. You want to get on anyone get on the government's regulatory bodies for not making stricter regulations regarding football. Crying about the owners not telling the players that were risking head injuries sounds pretty stupid to me when that's obvious to everyone to a certain degree. Or you could get on the players Union. Thats a major point of workplace unions to promote, advocate and create a safe workplace, outside of just wages. If this was a factory and not the football field the union would be ensuring proper research of the job hazards and negotiating ways to fix it. Not the factory owners
Players committing suicide does not equate to the NFL being life threatening. Kids commit suicide because of the pressures of college; should the school be held responsible? Is college a life threatening activity because some kids can't cope with the stress?
If those damn coal mine owners hid the fact that breathing in coal dust can produce black lung then fuck yeah they should be in jail. And all those boxing promoters should also be in jail for not advising their fighters that getting repeatedly smashed by in the head with sledgehammers causes brain damage. Workers UNITE! Money loving scumbags. _
You know who also commits suicide? At alarming rates? Air Traffic Controllers. Stock Brokers. Lawyers. Cops. Investment Bankers. Surgeons. Dentists. Marine Engineers. Vets. Urban Planners. Real Estate Brokers. Not a lot of head trauma there. I don't understand. _
You have to stop. You're viewership of NFL broadcasts does not go anywhere near evening news cast coffers. You're viewership of NFL games goes to the Networks OF the NFL. You start trolling this bullshit and I will wage wholly war. Mods--can you start watching this thread so it doesn't get derailed by Soxx's trolling? _
Stop trolling. You KNOW where those Networks get their money--NOT from local news broadcasts. From the BILLIONS they get from the NFL. Drop out now. Stop trolling. _
