OT - NFL brain injury panel called a sham

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tenplay
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Amazing that 4200 of 12000 former NFL players have joined the litigation lawsuits. When will the wave hit college and high school levels? Now that lawyers are involved, it will get uglier and more combative.

http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2008458-ex-players-call-nfl-brain-injury-panel-sham.html#.7518-stage-hero1-6
Bears2thDoc
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Well...it is a sham.
Headed, no pun intended, by Dr Elliot Pellman.....a rhumatologist.
He is to the NFL and players as Dr Conrad Murray is to AEG and Michael Jackson....well maybe no, but you get the point.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3644940
bearister
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Bears2thDoc;842112183 said:

Well...it is a sham.
Headed, no pun intended, by Dr Elliot Pellman.....a rhumatologist.
He is to the NFL and players as Dr Conrad Murray is to AEG and Michael Jackson....well maybe no, but you get the point.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3644940


..or as Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) would say:

"It's a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham."


RaphaelAglietti
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tenplay;842112101 said:

Amazing that 4200 of 12000 former NFL players have joined the litigation lawsuits. When will the wave hit college and high school levels? Now that lawyers are involved, it will get uglier and more combative.

http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2008458-ex-players-call-nfl-brain-injury-panel-sham.html#.7518-stage-hero1-6


I know it sounds hyperbolic but I believe this will be the death of the NFL. The NFL is like big tobacco with their spin. While this one doctor is suggesting it's ok he's out of his mind. Doctors use to encourage cigarette smoking to promote health til they realized how damaging it was ...
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