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Family sues NFL over sons suicide

joe fresh

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i find this really really stupid....if you join the nfl you know damn well what your getting into, i dont see how the family can win this case...this is just pure BS.


http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-newswire-20120224,0,618350.story

The family of the former Bears player claims the league did not do enough to prevent or treat the concussions that severely damaged his brain before he killed himself last year


The family of former Chicago Bears player Dave Duerson filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the NFL on Thursday that claims the league did not do enough to prevent or treat the concussions that severely damaged Duerson's brain before he killed himself last year.

The suit was filed in Chicago on behalf of Duerson's son Tregg and three other children. Duerson died Feb. 17, 2011, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest at his home in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla.

The lawsuit accuses the NFL of negligently causing the brain damage that led Duerson to take his own life at the age of 50 by not warning him of the negative effects of concussions.

Attorney Thomas Demetrio, who is representing Duerson's family, said the NFL should have been a leader in educating current and former players about head injuries.

The NFL said in a statement that it had not yet seen the lawsuit.
 
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I have no,problem with them suing ...I won't be devastated if they lose either
 

joe fresh

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I have no,problem with them suing ...I won't be devastated if they lose either

i agree, i just think, that if you know the risks before you do something, and shit happens, then you were well aware of the possibilities before hand....there fore you are at fault, because you had the choice...nobody forced him to play...
 

Greyskull

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dudes that play that level of play hurt, play injured, and play without disclosing any ailments to the team doctors.
the next guy on the depth chart is licking his chops waiting for a chance to crack the starting lineup. to make the team. to go from making the practice squad wages to roster bonuses for wins and % of snaps played
even now they are told of the effects of concussions and what not... and they still wont pull themselves out of a game.

the players are warriors.
the doctors are not yet able to read well enough into the brain/body/mind to step in and make the "medical" call and take the player out of the game.
of course the team doctors are paid to keep guys on the field....
maybe the nfl needs to hire some unbiased game doctors or something...

alls i know is the only times i took myself off the field was when i snapped my arm in the bottom of a pile and when my ankle was crushed on a goaline play (touchdown right over the hole greyskull opened up... just the 260lb fullback used my ankle as a springboard to get thru it...)

i dont know if "financial responsibility" should be thrust upon the nfl....

do coal miners families get to sue the coal mines for their husbands and fathers getting cancer after 20-30 years in the mines? they should be sued before the nfl imo... (maybe they already have?)
 

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i agree, i just think, that if you know the risks before you do something, and shit happens, then you were well aware of the possibilities before hand....there fore you are at fault, because you had the choice...nobody forced him to play...

exactly.... and I don't see how the NFL caused his death considering the dude blew a hole in his own chest
 

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I find only one thing ludicrous w/the NFL, Roger
Goodell's salary is going to double to 20 million.

 
the family is greedy & looking to blame someone for duerson's suicide...duerson obviously had head issues but so many other nfl players do 2 and their not commiting suicide...my 2 cents
 
i just think, that if you know the risks before you do something, and shit happens, then you were well aware of the possibilities before hand....there fore you are at fault, because you had the choice...nobody forced him

trouble is you could apply that to everything from crossing the street to working in heavy industry ..in general businesses do not spend money protecting/informing their workers/customers off there own backs unless they are forced by threat of financial punishment

Attorney Thomas Demetrio, who is representing Duerson's family, said the NFL should have been a leader in educating current and former players about about head injuries
dunno about the states, but if the above is true they would probably have a case to answer under euro law, i mean hes a football player not a brain specialist so how would he know the risks unless hes been informed by experts who have access to that information...

at the very least if this forces the nfl to pay more attention to head injuries then its a good thing ..not as if they are short of cash anyway
 

astartes

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I'd say this fall under the umbrella of common sense. If you get hit hard enough in the head to get knocked unconscious, it's likely not a good thing, especially multiple times. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that out... It's a calculated risk for the players that they knowingly take on.

Completely agree with Greyskull about players not disclosing everything to team docs.

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I'd imagine these people are just taking their cue from the NFL's own policy changes regarding head injuries.Of course they'd never admit any wrong doing, but by virtue of said policy changes have certainly mishandled these cases in the past.This won't go to court, they will get paid.

Litigious society is litigious, sometimes for the betterment,but rarely
 
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the players are warriors.
I used to work with a guy who was the starting middle linebacker for BYU and that was in his sophomore year. He tore a disc and Kurt Govea took his place. This guy was better at least at a college level. We talked and he said that football is a predatory sport. His, and others, mindset was to hurt people.

I can see how this suit will force the NFL to take a closer look at how doctors/teams deal with injured players and of course if a player is not saying anything the team can't be helped liable IMO. IF it's on record then a bit of a different story.

As Cravenmore said I don't have a problem with them suing but they have an uphill battle but maybe some good will come out of it.
 

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They get paid millions of dollars to take that risk. U.S. soldiers get paid like 30,000 a year to get killed, shot at and witness the horrors of war; and then be mentally perma fucked for there whole lives. Seems to me like this family should stfu. I know they are in pain, but it is not like he would get a court marshal for refusing to play football.
 
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there is no way it's the NFL's fault ...... i bet he listened to Judas Priest and Ozzy when he was a kid! thats what did it ....... evil was delivered to the poor boys mind via rock-n-roll and the devil made him do it!

sue him!

sarcasm off **********

if this poor bastard had retired from Mc Donald's the family would have the hamburgler and the grimace in fucking court ......... the smell of money makes people do amazingly stupid shit!

you don't see ali and norton sue boxing because they got hit
 

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some of these players get paid jack shit, in fact it's only a select few commanding multi-million dollar contracts and the rest are underpaid targets to protect the big money players from hits and tackles, FACT.

The NFL knows it has to protect its players better and is currently making accommodations to do so.

imo the lawsuit will have enough merit to cause the NFL to settle, we're not seeing Duerson' complete medical history & the leagues handling of his case.
 

joe fresh

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IDK....

when you put your kids into sports(especially in scholar sprts) you gotta sign a waver, this in case anything happens it is not the schools fault....


i would expect that in all the legal talk in the contracts that the players signed, there would be a clause saying"you know what you getting into, if anything happens to you then its your fault"

regardless of the money, if you decide to do something and are aware of the risks then no one is at fault, you knew the risks....

besides the #1 reason for suicide is depression....so even if he was depressed i still say this has no bearing on the nfl....


my opinion is he was depressed at the way his life was going, and didnt see a way out and killed himself, now the family is looking for someone to point the finger, but in reality if when he was still live the family had of reached out to him more then maybe he would have seen other options than killing himself...


there are 100 diff directions you "could" point your finger...but this gets you no where....




most of the time in a situation like this, ppl are always looking for, why me, what did i do, why did this have to happen....

and they get nowhere, if they were to just say to themselves, shit happens, time to move on....then their lives would be much better....
 

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Do you think we'd better warn skyscraper window washers about the dangers of gravity?

They may be unaware or forget.
 

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