re: Dan Marino suing NFL over concussions

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How can a person sue the NFL for concussions after willingly playing a sport and making a living doing something where the risk were clearly known in advance?

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And we are not just talking about "physical health". A trick knee or a chronically painful back are one thing. The inability to think straight or take care of your own business is MUCH worse. If guys like Marino had known about the brain disease earlier, who's to say they would have kept playing as long? If the NFL knew, they had a responsibility to protect the players.

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I get this and it's a possibility that the NFL wasn't forthcoming with the information they had on brain injuries? My problem is that guys like Marino now after the fact will pretend that they were completely clueless to the risk of playing football just to get a payday and possibly destroy a sport that made them millionaires along the way.

What is the end game with all of this? What if the league has peaked at doing everything it can to protect the players? Guys are still going to get concussions.

Is this the long winding road to the death of football?

There are doctors and studies out there that say 1 concussion is too many. I'm not sure what else can be done to mitigate these types of injuries. Moving forward I think players and the various football leagues from Pop Warner through the Pros have to determine what level of risk they are willing to assume.

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What am I missing?!!

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I've told you repeatedly. No one back then thought "getting your bell rung " was a big deal, let alone could cause long term brain damage.

Is that so hard for you to grasp?

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How can a person sue the NFL for concussions after willingly playing a sport and making a living doing something where the risk were clearly known in advance? Is this any different than a 40 year smoker suing the tobacco companies after coming down with cancer?

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...even worse, how was he harmed? The guy had a very long career, had a very long second career without an effect from concussions.

This seems to be a money grab.

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It's a full contact sport where grown men are hitting each other at top speed. Every pro played ball from youth and endured multiple injuries along the way. It is unimaginable that anyone choosing this sport as a career wouldn't be aware of the long term repercussions of playing such a violent sport?

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Are you saying that you believe the average NFL player in the 1980s was capable of instinctually knowing the specifics of the brain damage they would suffer from down the line?

That's pretty impressive, given that even doctors had no such knowledge then.

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Are you saying that you believe the average NFL player in the 1980s was capable of instinctually knowing the specifics of the brain damage they would suffer from down the line?

That's pretty impressive, given that even doctors had no such knowledge then.

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If the Dr's. didn't know, how could the NFL be liable?

Meh, People can claim that the players are the victims. However, if you played football for a living and are trying to tell me you didn't know it was dangerous or that it would have long term adverse health effects, then I don't what to tell you, you're (the players) a moron.

It's common sense. You spend years of your life exerting THAT much physical energy all the while getting completely destroyed on the field and you act like you were going to be able to lead a normal physical life later on? Come on. It's a money grab.

If you were misdiagnosed, then I can see where you'd have a case and should receive some sort of compensation. But otherwise, you don't deserve a damn thing.

Don't want adverse health effects later on? Don't play. The players knew what they were doing and even when they were injured, they said they weren't to get back on the field. Money grab...all this is.

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Are you saying that you believe the average NFL player in the 1980s was capable of instinctually knowing the specifics of the brain damage they would suffer from down the line?

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I may not know every single detail of what will happen to me, but even a 10 year old can figure out that if you allow yourself to be physically hit and tackled every day for any prolonged period of time, you will suffer health-wise down the road.

This whole lawsuit is just another illustration of an ignorant group claiming they are victims of some big bad wolf owners who have money.

MONEY GRAB.

ETA: The irony here...these are the same players that talked about how much tougher they are than today's players because they didn't bitch about injuries and played through them.

Now all of a sudden you're crying about how severe your injuries are because money is involved.

He's broke, I think he lost 14 million in an investment scheme.

Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino intends to withdraw from a concussion-related lawsuit against the NFL, according to a report by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.