[pieceofthepuzzle]

Irrespective of where one sits on this issue, to me one of the big story lines is that although the NFL is out $765,000,000, when you consider the number of players involved, the money that's supposed to go to research etc., and the fact that the attorney fees and cut from this must be huge, it's doubtful that each individual player will get much over $100,000. This is the problem with all class action-type litigation.

Our legal system is really not about justice. It's an industry.

[discostu]

The players that were involved in the suit that spoke about it said the goal really wasn’t a wad of cash, it was getting the NFL to put brain damage from concussions under the game related injury umbrella which gets them access to a lot of medical treatment. The league had been avoiding that because they’d been insisting for years there were no long term side effects to concussions. The actual dollar value is meaningless, the important part is now brain damage is considered just like knee damage, covered as part of the retired player package.