Thread: Football Junior Seau dead, probable suicide
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Old 05-02-2012, 01:27 PM   #165
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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?
Is that the standard, that the player needs to have a doctor-level understanding?
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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