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05-02-2012, 01:23 PM | #1 |
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How much do you think the average professional football player knows about the consequences of the game? The science of this brain rumbling isn't well known. People know they can get concussions, but the long term effects of those? And even without concussions?
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05-02-2012, 01:27 PM | #2 | |
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IMHO there is a standard of implied consent that has been met. There should be a formal consent document drawn up that all existing and future players must sign or they can't play. If any actual damages exist from the past the league should pay the expenses associated with them.
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05-02-2012, 01:31 PM | #3 | |
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There has to be mandatory clinics all players attend during training camp. The club basically needs to tell them, "By the time you're 40, there's a 50/50 chance you're going to be mentally ****ed up if you play for longer than 2 years." |
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05-02-2012, 01:36 PM | #4 | |
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Once again, I know the argument will be 'well they just didn't have to play', but I can tell you that a jury's not going to buy that when they have actual corpses in front of them. Besides, the beautiful thing about waivers is that there are very few of them that I can argue are both 1) specific enough to be clear as to what they're addressing and 2) broad enough to cover all contingencies. Put me in a room with any document you draw up, give me enough time, money and manpower and sooner or later I'll figure out a way to attack one of those 2 problems. It's nowhere near as straightforward as vailpass or Donger are trying to make it. If it were, the NFL would've dealt with stuff like this, injury settlements or even Free Agency a long long time ago. The NFL can't just say 'here it is, take it or leave it', or we wouldn't have FA or exorbitant salaries now would we?
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05-02-2012, 01:38 PM | #5 |
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Adhesion contract when they are represented by licensed agents?
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They can ultimately have someone else review it, but their choices remain the same as presented by vailpass - sign it or don't play. Go ahead and throw that in front of your average juror and see how it plays.
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05-02-2012, 01:43 PM | #7 |
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It would play just fine with me and everyone I know and seems to me it would play out as fair with a majority of Americans.
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You're simply out of your depth here if you truly believe there's some piece of paper the NFL can just hand every player and HUZZAH - no liability. It's not going to work that way.
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