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SPORTS: MEDICINE :
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NFL Concussion Settlement Doesn't Show Us
How Dangerous Football Really Is
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NFL Concussion Settlement Doesn't Show Us
How Dangerous Football Really Is
By Daniel Engber
Slate
on September 8, 2013 - 12:01 AM
The Buffalo News
http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/nfl-concussion-settlement-
doesnt-show-us-how-dangerous-football-really-is-20130908
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The National Football League reached a settlement last month in the
combined lawsuits of 4,500 former players: The NFL will pay out up to $766
million to help retirees whose brains were damaged by concussions. Thats a
good deal for league officials, who will not admit any liability or
negligence. If the case had moved ahead, they might have faced several
billion dollars worth of damages, and a longer run of bad publicity.
Worse, they would have been forced to put a huge library of internal
documents on the record. As the bioethicist Daniel Goldberg points out,
its doubtful that even the NFLs top executives know what embarrassing
secrets or damning evidence might have turned up.
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The settlement looks like a solid deal for the plaintiffs, too. The terms
apply to every retiree who presents medical evidence of severe cognitive
impairment, dementia, Alzheimers or ALS, or to those players families. If
Im reading that correctly, the athletes wont have to prove that any of
their disabilities came specifically from trauma sustained while in the
pros. Since these guys all played football in high school and college and
got hit in the head over and over again along the way the requirement for
specific harm would have posed a major obstacle in court. Any retiree with
signs of brain damage will be eligible for cash, including those who would
have gotten these diseases even if they never tackled anyone. (Among
normal men above the age of 70, the rate of Alzheimers and other forms of
dementia is 11 percent.)
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If youre not a party to the lawsuit, though, the deal hardly has the same
appeal. According to the mediator, the NFL and former players reached a
historic deal to promote safety for players at all levels of football.
That simply isnt true. Concussion litigation that ends here wont help
resolve the questions that affect players at every stage of their careers.
Exactly how much disability do concussions cause? Can the game be made
much safer? Just how dangerous is football, overall? A payout to retirees
doesnt get us any closer to the answers.
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