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North Dallas Forty…
Still true to life…
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Yes Sir. “Pro” sports… Nothing else like them in the world. Thank goodness! (and goodness has nothing whatsoever to do with Pro Sports these days.)
I’ll ask again, just in case…
Pro Football has an anti-trust exemption why?
“We have not seen the lawsuit and our attorneys have not had an opportunity to review it.”
Statements like that just don’t look good.
Its the same in all professional sports - Sidney Crosby, arguably the best hockey player on the planet, took a year off to fully heal from his post-concussion syndrome… and now its become a common refrain to cite the fact that the man took the time to heal his brain as a sign of him being “soft”.
…and that’s the best player in the world, with tens of millions of dollars and the full financial force of the NHL Player’s Association, the player’s union, behind him.
Imagine the pressure put on young, bottom rung players - it must be impossible for them to say no.
If the NFL really checked, I mean really checked, for HGH alone 40%, at minimum of those overgrown linemen would fail the test.
But what about performance enhancing drugs? Pain killers weren’t the only drugs these guys were using…
I’m sure the football players were using HGH, EPO and steroids like bicycle racers have in the past.
It was filed today and the complaint most likely has not even been served on the NFL. What are they supposed to say?
Holy shit this is so shocking!
The guys who filed the lawsuit have been out of the NFL for a while, but this still absolutely goes on. Just look up all that Jason Taylor went through as an NFL player. The medical issues these guys face and the things that go on in the locker room are absolutely horrendous.
Pro football does not have an antitrust exemption. MLB is the only sport that does on the basis of a Supreme Court opinion from 1922. In any event, what does this have to do with antitrust?
Oh I thought they were able to beat the shit out of each other and still get on the field week after week because they ate their Wheaties.