Report: NFL Pressured ESPN Into Backing Out Of Concussion Film

[WhawhaWhat]

Pressure from the National Football League led to ESPN’s decision on Thursday to pull out of an investigative project with “Frontline” regarding head injuries in the N.F.L., according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation.

“Frontline,” the PBS public affairs series, and ESPN had been working for 15 months on a two-part documentary, to be televised in October. But ESPN’s role came under intense pressure by the league, the two people said, after a trailer for the documentary was released Aug. 6, the day that the project was discussed at a Television Critics Association event in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Last week, several high-ranking officials convened a lunch meeting at Patroon, near the league’s Midtown Manhattan headquarters, according to the two people, who requested anonymity because they were prohibited by their superiors from discussing the matter publicly. It was a table for four: Roger Goodell, commissioner of the N.F.L.; Steve Bornstein, president of the NFL Network; ESPN’s president, John Skipper; and John Wildhack, ESPN’s executive vice president for production.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/sp...=tw-share&_r=0

NFL says "Jump!". ESPN says "How high?". Obviously the NFL is denying the story and told ESPN to deny it as well.

[Chiefshrink]

Politically Correct Football - Can't Wait !(self-induced concussion by the smilie) It's coming fellas and is already here to some extinct. The game only gets worse as time goes on to the point I probably won't watch. Just damn sad.

[Chiefshrink]

Originally Posted by GoChargers

and trying to avoid lawsuits.

This and pretty much this only, other than protecting the product which usually means protecting the QBs but primarily "player safety" is just trying to show and make changes to avoid losing lawsuits because of irresponsibility of the NFL and why that POS Demaurice Smith and the Union are trying to make this a cigarette situation of the past trying to show that the NFL has known about the effects of concussions in football for decades

What the NFL is doing is no more than any other company taking action to make sure ALL Employees take the sexual harassment and workplace violence or diversity classes to COVER THEMSELVES to show they did everything they could in case an employee tries to take them to court.