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Retired players suing NFL
Posted on 5/20/14 at 11:30 am
Posted on 5/20/14 at 11:30 am
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ESPN - Group of retired players sues NFL, says league illegally supplied painkillers that masked their injuries
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Posted on 5/20/14 at 11:36 am to droman225
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ESPN - Group of retired players sues NFL, says league illegally supplied painkillers that masked their injuries
:They should have told me a full contact sport was risky!!111!1!:
Posted on 5/20/14 at 11:38 am to MagicCityBlazer
Sean Payton's fault
Posted on 5/20/14 at 11:43 am to droman225
I dont know about the league itself being (technically) responsible but its an open dirty secret that several team doctors are prescribing painkillers like they are candy and make little effort to inform the players of what the medications could do to their bodies.
This post was edited on 5/20/14 at 11:44 am
Posted on 5/20/14 at 11:44 am to Ghetto Pimp
Nobody wanted to not play for risk of losing their starting job.
It's a business but still a sport - you aren't guaranteed a job like a CEO for X amount of years.
Players would take anything to play of their own volition and pressure from the team.
The more they try to take employment law and apply it to the strange world of NFL - sport - it doesn't make sense or really work. Playing football for a living isn't real life.
It's a business but still a sport - you aren't guaranteed a job like a CEO for X amount of years.
Players would take anything to play of their own volition and pressure from the team.
The more they try to take employment law and apply it to the strange world of NFL - sport - it doesn't make sense or really work. Playing football for a living isn't real life.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 12:03 pm to droman225
I guarantee none of those players were actually relevant players or probably barely started
Posted on 5/20/14 at 12:19 pm to WicKed WayZ
Jim McMahon?
HOFer Richard Dent?
HOFer Richard Dent?
Posted on 5/20/14 at 12:22 pm to Zamoro10
illegally supplied painkillers
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Jim McMahon?
Posted on 5/20/14 at 12:30 pm to MagicCityBlazer
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They should have told me a full contact sport was risky
Not sure how that is relevant to this topic if you read the article.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 12:32 pm to shel311
quote:Which article?
Not sure how that is relevant to this topic if you read the article.
edit: there is no link in the op and no one else has posted a link. What article did YOU read?
edit again: ESPN Mick you dumbass. Go to ESPN
This post was edited on 5/20/14 at 12:35 pm
Posted on 5/20/14 at 12:34 pm to shel311
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Not sure how that is relevant to this topic if you read the article.
I don't have any pity whatsoever to someone who signs up to play a brutal full-contact sport like American Football and then turns around and sues for damages related to playing the game.
Or in this case suing that someone helped you under the table deal with the brutal injuries in a brutal game.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 12:38 pm to The Mick
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Which article?
edit: there is no link in the op and no one else has posted a link. What article did YOU read?
edit again: ESPN Mick you dumbass. Go to ESPN
Yea, I just went straight to ESPN after reading the OP.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 1:16 pm to droman225
aren't 80% of retired NFL players bankrupt or some shite? this is their way of basically saying I'm a broke dumbass.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 1:23 pm to MagicCityBlazer
quote:Did you read the story?
I don't have any pity whatsoever to someone who signs up to play a brutal full-contact sport like American Football and then turns around and sues for damages related to playing the game.
The allegations are that teams/doctors knew players had broken legs/ankles but wouldn't tell them.
No nonsense guys here in the MSB. I'd love to see if that was your doctor telling you that about your leg or your mom or daughter's, every one of you saying "too bad" would also be the 1st to cry and throw the biggest fit if it were your doctor doing the same.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 1:23 pm to LSUzealot
quote:Maybe.
aren't 80% of retired NFL players bankrupt or some shite? this is their way of basically saying I'm a broke dumbass.
But do you really put it pass teams/doctors to hide injuries from players? I surely don't.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 1:37 pm to shel311
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The allegations are that teams/doctors knew players had broken legs/ankles but wouldn't tell them.
If that is true these players are dumber than I thought. I broke my finger tip bone playing flag football last year and with no medical training, I knew that bastard was broken immediately.
A leg? An ankle? My god.
This post was edited on 5/20/14 at 1:39 pm
Posted on 5/20/14 at 1:42 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
quote:Yea, I think you're underestimating the amount of injuries/pain these guys go through with that analogy.
If that is true these players are dumber than I thought. I broke my finger tip bone playing flag football last year and with no medical training, I knew that bastard was broken immediately.
A leg? An ankle? My god
Posted on 5/20/14 at 1:52 pm to Jed Zeppelin
NFL can't win this one either, go ahead and draw up a settlement.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 2:21 pm to MagicCityBlazer
What is the purpose of pain? It is intended to tell you that something is wrong with your body, and that you should change your behavior to avoid damaging your body further. Doctors are trained to know this and assist their patients respond to pain. What were the ethical duties of the NFL team doctors? Were they to look after the health of the players, or to look out for the interests of the team? I'd be willing to bet the NFL will acknowledge that the doctors were supposed to place the players' health first. And I think a strong case can be made that the doctors failed in that duty when they dispensed painkillers to allow players to ignore injuries that were causing pain.
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