Blood Sport Of Football Correlated To War, Domestic Violence, Player Deaths, Paralysis And

Football remains a blood sport in which the players are collateral damage for the owners, the advertisers, the networks, the alcohol industry, the ticket buyers and the tv audience. They are gladiators sacrificed for the amusement of the cash carrying fans. Football has been correlated to military aggression and war. http://www.sgiquarterly.org/feature2006Jly-2.html

Studies have indicated a relationship between football and domestic violence.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/2009/11/illega

Mike Ditka, a legend in pro football, said he would not want any son to play football. He said players use painkillers to play despite injuries, leading to addictions. He said the risk of football was greater than the reward. Ditka was in 1961 NFL Rookie of the Year, was in the pro bowl 5 times, 3 times a Super Bowl champion. For 11 years, he coached the Chicago Bears

"He and Tom Flores are the only two people to win an NFL title as a player, an assistant coach, and a head coach. Ditka is also the only individual in modern NFL history to win a championship with the same team as a player and a head coach" Wikipedia.org

76 of 79 deceased NFL players had brain disease

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sports/concussion-watch/76-of-79/

http://deadspin.com/5866432/study-of-dead-football-players-brain-is-even

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/mike-ditka--risk-of-pl



The NFL paid out a 750 million dollar judgment to several thousand players, a fraction of the cost of health care and infinitesimal compared to the deaths, paralysis, permanent neck, back, knee, hand and other injuries.



http://www.traumaticbraininjury.net/hbo-explores-the-link-between-cte-an/



From the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/24/hbos-real-s/

"Paul Oliver, a former safety for the San Diego Chargers shot and killed himself in front of Chelsea and their two young sons last year. Before he killed himself, he had become unrecognizable, she said — abusive and threatening.

Paul Oliver had an advanced form of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease linked with continued concussions or blows to the head. It’s associated with with memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, paranoia, impulse control problems, aggression, depression and progressive dementia, according to the Sports Legacy Institute, an organization dedicated to studying, treating, and preventing brain trauma in athletes."



http://ChicagoFootball.com http://sports.yahoo.com

"Reinforcing Ditka's point, former Bears defensive end Richard Dent and quarterback Jim McMahon detail their respective post-playing health conditions in the HBO feature, which is scheduled to air Tuesday. Dent outlined the team's use of painkillers and alcohol as postgame treatment and describes himself as "damaged goods." Meanwhile, McMahon suffers from early onset dementia and says he understands the suicide of teammate Dave Duerson, who suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

For the record, the 75-year-old Ditka has four children all born well before researchers discovered CTE — a degenerative brain disease — can result from the kind of repetitive head trauma often seen in football.

In addition to the experiences of his ex-players, Ditka has a wealth of knowledge on the subject, serving as president of the Gridiron Greats Assistance Fund's efforts to provide support for retired NFL players. In the HBO feature, the former Bears coach expresses his desire for NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to implement additional policies benefiting those affected by the violent nature of the sport.

As Ditka said, "You wouldn't have a damn job right now if it wasn't for those guys."



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Why The NFL Probably Won't Lose Its Tax Exempt Status

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/nfl-tax-exempt

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National Football League Brain Injuries, Profiteering, Corrupt Nonprofit Status

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More than 4500 NFL players and their families filed a lawsuit in Philadelphia about the callous way profiteers in the NFL hide brain damage, concussions, suicides caused by injuries. The settlement was 765 million dollars.

The owners of NFL teams are very rich people, yet the NFL is subsidized by the public
at a rate of 1 BILLION dollars a year. The NFL loopholed in status as a 'nonprofit'.

The head of the NFL, Roger Goodell, receives a 30 million dollar a year salary in his 'nonprofit' corporation.

The NFL has hidden the concussions, the brain injuries, the longstanding brain
damage, spinal damage, shattered knees and other lethal effects of
smashing 2 teams against each other. After the suit was filed, the NFL donated 30 million dollars to the National Institute of Health, itself a pharmaceutically dominated animal torture institution which like the NFL has no intention of reducing the violence it does to its victims.

Is there a relationship between football and the violence of the illegal
wars waged by every president since 1963 but Carter?

Parents, do you have a right to play the lottery of paraplegia and brain damage for your teen sons?


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/30/sports/football/judge-announces-settle

http://abcnews.go.com/US/nfl-players-file-lawsuit-league-concussions/sto

" More than 2,000 former NFL players filed a lawsuit this morning in Philadelphia, accusing the league of concealing information linking football-related injuries to long-term brain damage.
In the biggest sports lawsuit ever, the former players allege that the "NFL exacerbated the health risk by promoting the game's violence" and "deliberately and fraudulently" misled players about the link between concussions and long-term brain injuries.

Concussions have become football's No. 1 issue with several of the sport's biggest names suspected of killing themselves because of brain damage.

Former San Diego Chargers linebacker Junior Seau was found dead in his home in May after an apparent suicide. Retirees Dave Duerson of the Chicago Bears and Ray Easterling of the Atlanta Falcons are also among the suicides that have raised questions about football's unbridled violence."

Tom Cutinella, dead from a football tackle.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2778093/Long-Island-teenager-die


Paralysis from a football play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFg7Jz6K-90
http://nflconcussionlitigation.com/