Radio West re-broadcasted the story about the NFL's complacency and complicity in the brain damage that the sport of football causes. Not that there was anything too surprising about it. I just always figured and assumed that the players knew and understood that you can't take a baseball bat, figuratively speaking, to the human head 1500 times a season and not have any effect. But, they didn't figure that.
The players didn’t know because those put in charge of them (and paid dearly to keep them in play) were in denial: the team doctors. Never underestimate the power of money to corrupt – whether its politics, law, business, medicine, banking, newscasting, etc. Pay people to support a position and they will find a way to do it.
I guess common core needs to add the study of the tobacco, NFL, and oil industry experts, who are paid to back them up, to keep their pocketbooks backed up with bucks.
Loren M. Lambert © January 3, 2014
The players didn’t know because those put in charge of them (and paid dearly to keep them in play) were in denial: the team doctors. Never underestimate the power of money to corrupt – whether its politics, law, business, medicine, banking, newscasting, etc. Pay people to support a position and they will find a way to do it.
I guess common core needs to add the study of the tobacco, NFL, and oil industry experts, who are paid to back them up, to keep their pocketbooks backed up with bucks.
Loren M. Lambert © January 3, 2014
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