David Rosenthal

You know, my feeling, and this was in the 90s and early 2000s, you know, my feeling on the matter was I'm for sure risking my body by playing.

But the risk calculation on my mind was all short term.

I could tear an ACL.

Sure.

I could break my arm.

Sure.

I could get a concussion.

Sure.

But in my mind, those were all the same things.

Like there was no broader understanding among general population or there's been a bunch of research on this or the NFL players themselves that there was real long-term mental risk to playing the game.

And then here's what's really bad is the NFL knew it and they covered it up.

So the NFL started doing research into long-term effects of concussions and other head trauma from playing football in the 90s.

And then they sat on the data for a long time.

And then when they did release it, they claimed that there was absolutely no provable link, no evidence at all, that...

head injuries from playing football led to long-term damage.

The NFL didn't acknowledge that until 2016.

Super bad.

I mean, there's the Will Smith movie concussion about it.

We don't need to go into a bunch of the specifics, but I think like from the acquired standpoint and the NFL audience standpoint, this was a major, major trust-breaking moment for

The second order effects are pretty large from this.