going on the medical problems and the legal problems. football has several issues. culture of accepted risk. world of nonguaranteed contracts. you have to get back out there or somebody else will take your job. but key to the legal situation here is did the nfl give these guys the wrong information? and i think there is some evidence that they may have done that. there s a 2007 nfl pamphlet they gave the players saying research has not shown that having one or two concussions leads to permanent problems. roger goodall read it to players and focused on active players other than retired players showing much more cte. right. do you think there s a base taos the lawsuit where the nfl will be in trouble for giving the players the wrong information? there s a real threat here. it s a question of whether the nfl actively covered up what they knew. if they did something akin to the building materials industry
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could the legal challenges change the game forever and necessarily a bad thing? bloomberg businessweek s latest cover story is crunch time. it s on news stands right now and paul bar vet the author and assisting managing editor. welcome. thanks. you write in here that the very future of football is at stake here and i ll quote you. you say if science one day determines that merely playing serious tackle football increases the danger of brain disease it s conceivable that the nfl could go the way of professional boxing. that sounds pretty dire. yeah. well, that s the fear. the science isn t quite there yet. but we do know that this repetitive jostling of the brain where the gray matter bangs in to the skull is seems to be causing long-term problems with a lot of nfl players. ex-nfl players. i m not sure that it was brain injuries that damaged boxing as much as pay per view killed boxing but let s keep