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Dan Marino Sues NFL, Says He Was Hurt By Football Concussions
Forbes ^ | 6/2/14 | Dan Diamond

Posted on 06/02/2014 7:20:12 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Dan Marino has sued the NFL, claiming that playing professional football left him suffering from concussion-related injuries, Nathan Fenno reports for the Los Angeles Times.

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia last week, according to the Times. Fourteen other players joined Marino in the suit.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: athletes; lawsuit; nfl; sports
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To: SoFloFreeper

Did the football do it or was it the helmets?


21 posted on 06/02/2014 7:36:11 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SoFloFreeper

I agree. I was very opposed to these lawsuits at one point, but Goodell has so ruined the NFL that I hope they have to pay up big time. Goodell seems more concerned about pleasing leftist agitators about homosexuality, Redskins namesake, etc., than putting a good show on the field.


22 posted on 06/02/2014 7:37:11 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Soon, "the grateful dead" will be more than just the name of a crap band...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I suppose that the PC crowd will back him on this one.

I never thought much about his football talents in addition to his not being very bright. He seems like a ‘duh’ kind of guy to me.


23 posted on 06/02/2014 7:37:15 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (What we need is to sucker the fedthugs into a "Tiananmen Square"-like incident on the National Mall!)
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To: F15Eagle
"I’ll be honest, I wouldn’t miss the NFL nor the NBA."

Well, the NHL season should be over before ice out.

24 posted on 06/02/2014 7:37:30 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: digger48

25 posted on 06/02/2014 7:38:07 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Red Badger

No, that’s why he had an affair.


26 posted on 06/02/2014 7:40:11 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert (She accomplished nothing: should have stayed at home and baked cookies)
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To: SoFloFreeper

People smell a payday. This may bleed the NFL’s coffers.


27 posted on 06/02/2014 7:41:06 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: blueplum
Actually, no. Pro football players are highly compensated because they generate billions of dollars of revenue for their employers.

I don't know if any of these lawsuits have any merit, but no employer has the right to willfully put their employees in harm's way by hiding risks associated with the work.

28 posted on 06/02/2014 7:43:20 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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To: Vince Ferrer
So the concussions caused him to never save any money from 13 years playing, plus endorsements?

He never had a concussion. His most serious injury was an Achilles tear that was more from playing golf than football.

29 posted on 06/02/2014 7:43:37 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: dfwgator

“Dan Marino should die of Gonerreah and rot in Hell”


30 posted on 06/02/2014 7:44:21 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Army Air Corps

getting aids from homosexual’s tainted blood will put the final nail in the coffin.


31 posted on 06/02/2014 7:45:59 PM PDT by newfreep
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To: SoFloFreeper

He freely engaged in the activity of playing football fully knowing that he would get knocked about. It was not forced on him by the NFL. He chose to get roughed up.


33 posted on 06/02/2014 7:46:57 PM PDT by all the best (sat`~!)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

That’s interesting. As a pure passer, I thought he was the best QB I had ever seen in the NFL.


34 posted on 06/02/2014 7:48:41 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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To: Moonman62

Bruce smith nailed him several times


35 posted on 06/02/2014 7:50:12 PM PDT by reefdiver (Be the Best you can be Whatever you Dream to be)
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To: SoFloFreeper

What is this, “NFL,” of which you all speak?


36 posted on 06/02/2014 7:51:25 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: newfreep

Excellent point.


37 posted on 06/02/2014 7:52:14 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Alberta's Child

“That’s interesting. As a pure passer, I thought he was the best QB I had ever seen in the NFL.”

Ah, that’s because you never saw John Unitas play football, live, in-person nor knew the kind of upstanding man he was except maybe in a couple of video clips. ;-)


38 posted on 06/02/2014 7:55:46 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (What we need is to sucker the fedthugs into a "Tiananmen Square"-like incident on the National Mall!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

One break coming up its football stupid , might as well sue the college and high schools too? Never won a Super Bowl dan.


39 posted on 06/02/2014 7:58:38 PM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Hey Marino, you got paid handsomely for what you did and you knew what you were getting into when you strapped on that uniform.

If you hadn’t played football, what would you have done?

There are thousands who strapped on a uniform and got very little in return but perhaps a flag draped coffin and never had a chance to bitch about it like you have.


40 posted on 06/02/2014 8:00:17 PM PDT by 353FMG
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