David Rosenthal

Wow.

So much for the league first mentality from Jerry Jones there.

Maybe the Madden deal is in there.

I don't know if it'd be there or in media.

Mental, emotional, suicides, everything.

There's a bunch of dimensions here.

I played football all growing up.

Middle school, high school, college.

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.