League Of Denial Fallout: Round One

((HT: ESPN))

It took PBS and "Frontline" all of about 20 minutes to drop the hammer on the NFL and what we think we knew and when we knew it about the beginnings of what is now "the concussion crisis."

It was part of the Mike Webster settlement where one of the NFL's own doctors admitted that repeated head-to-head trauma caused debilitating disability...

Here's the Fainaru brothers discussing their book and the stuff that happened last night on television...

Concussion Settlement May Not Have Enough Money, Older Players Excluded...???

((HT: ESPN/Fainaru-Fainaru Wada))

Now, if this don't beat all... and it's not a shock if it turns out to be true...

But the Shield is buckling down in the settlement where:

1) Some of the earliest diagnoses would be disqualified and those families would not get any of the $765-million pot. Names like Mike Webster and Justin Strelczyk would fall into this category...

2) Some lawyers representing players are getting paid directly from the player's settlement money. This flies in the face of the initial notion that the fund would not be used for legal fees. This lends itself to the idea that some lawyers would get multiple paydays.

3)Is there, simply, enough money to go around if individual awards would be capped at $5 million for players suffering from ALS, Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease, $4-million for deaths from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and $3 million for players suffering from dementia.

And we're talking hundreds of plaintiffs...

Some lawyers interviewed by Fainaru and Fainaru-Wada say yes. Some say no.

Steve Fainaru discusses...


The whole article is a must read and no one should be surprised...