Why continuin' to ask about CTE's link to football is stupid! "Obvious"

"Really bruh?"

Confucius once said, "When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." Albert Einstein gave it to us like this, "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." Then Roger Bacon, the English philosopher, put it where the goats could get it when he spit, "All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon." 

Well playas....even a fool can count and reckon that if a boy suffers multiple concussions over an extended period of time that he would develop some form of brain disease. On Monday the NFL's top health and safety officer, Jeff Miller, was asked by boyz on the House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce if the link between football and neurodegenerative diseases like CTE had been established and ole boy said yes. 

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Did we really have to wait for a boy to tell us that bruh? It's obvious that if a cat keeps essentially runnin' into a brick wall with his head his brain is goin' to be mess over a period of time. This is stupid to even keep discussin'! 

Now that cats are gettin' older and technology is gettin' better we're goin' to keep learnin' more and more about the risk factors of everything in the world not just concussions. As technology got better in the game of football, in the art of diet and exercise and weight training players got bigger, stronger and faster. Therefore, over the years players began to deliver harder and more violent hits. Thus causin' more and more head trauma! Do we need an expert to tell us that bruh?  

They've only started to diagnose concussions in sports over the past 10 to 15 years puttin' protocols into place. Now that they've been doin' research on the brains of deceased players its obvious that there is a link. We didn't have to wait for a boy to admit it to confirm it. This is gettin' to be stupid!!! 

If you get into your car EVERYDAY without a seat belt and have a head on collision for the next 10 years and you start actin' funny and stumblin' around. We don't have to ask you if it was the car accidents that have you all messes up. It's obvious that you're brain is a mess because of your behavior and who's fault is that? The dun that made the car or the dun drivin' the car? 

All the NFL can do at this point is warn these cats of the dangers of concussions and keep a them out of the game when they're sufferin' from one now that they have the information available. Cats that played 30 years or more ago are just hit! They weren't diagnosin' concussions back then. There were no concussion protocols. So stop tellin' me about duns that donated their brains to Boston University that are 72 years old that played with a plastic helmet with no pads in it. It's obvious that his brain is goin' to be a mess. Stop tellin' me about the dun that's 55 that played in the 1980's that had CTE because there was no protocol in place at the time. 

The research is great but who are we goin' to blame? There was no protocol and the player wasn't goin' to stop playin' because he was makin' too much bread. How many times have we seen boyz admit that they were goin' to play no matter what? If you had told him that he would have brain damage 30 years later he would have still ran back out on the field because that's the job he chose to do and he wasn't givin' up that bread. 

It's no different than the cat that worked at the steel mill for 35 years inhalin' chemicals and takin' on the risk of dying daily. He knew that it was dangerous but this is what he did for a livin' bruh! No different than the cop, the firefighter, the dun workin' in construction etc. There are risk factors and they all know it. They all knew they existed and guess what pimpin'? They aren't sittin' around complainin' about their health today lookin' to sue a boy. They took it like a G and kept it movin'. Why? Because they chose to make a livin' doin' whatever they chose to do. 

Stop tellin' me about the plight of the NFL player and concussions because EVERYBODY playin' knows the risks involved and they're makin' a fortune doin' it relatively speakin'. Even the cat makin' minimum wage is makin' $350K a year. Stop it! You sound crazy continuin' to bring it up and stop me when I start lyin'! 

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1) Spit: verb - to say
2) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific. 
3) Hit: verb - S.O.L. bruh! 

How T.O. & Chad Johnson sounded like two butt naked maniacs on ESPN today! "Duck Tape"

"What!!!!?" 

Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese soccer player, once said, "Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do." Tennessee Williams, the famous playwright,  gave it to us like this, "The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!" William Hazlitt, the English writer, broke it down like a player at a pimp convention when he spit, "The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy." 

Well playas...the hypocrisy shows up every time I turn on the radio or television these days and hear some former NFL player talkin' crazy about concussions. This mornin' both T.O. and Chad Johnson were on Mike & Mike talkin' like they were somewhere butt naked foamin' at the mouth about darn near everything they asked them. For starters Chad tried to tell a boy that he probably could have beatin' Michael Phelps swimmin' if he had continued as a kid because he was the city champ! What!!!? Phelps is the best Oylimpian of all-time bruh! He's won 22 medals!!! You were the city champ! Not the state champ or national champ! He's the WORLD champ!!! Stop it! Then T.O.'s ole hatin' butt went at Cris Carter sayin' that the dun begged his way into the Hall of Fame. This is the foolishness that I'm talkin' about bruh! And then they asked cats like this real questions about concussions and the all of the marbles just fall off of the table. 

These fairly young but retired cats that still have some bread are tellin' boyz that no way would they check themselves out of a game if they even suspected they were concussed. And then the old cats are tryin' to sue the league because they've got early onset dementia Etc. 

"Yeah, I said it!" 

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! You can't have it both ways bruh! To a freakin'  man EVERY young cat you talk to will say that you would have to drag them off of the field. It doesn't matter how bad of a hit it was they were gonna keep playin'. Their mind set is, "We don't have guaranteed contracts! So this is my livelihood. No way I'm I goin' to sit down and let another cat take my job! So I'm playin' through the concussion if I can lie to a boy and stay out there." 

That's cool playa, but I don't wanna hear from you in twenty years hollerin' about you can't remember what you put your shoes on for or why you even left the house in the first place once you're broke. Don't be on TV tellin' boyz that you wish you wouldn't have played football like Antwann Randle El said or sayin' how the league didn't warn you of the foolishness to come. Why? Because if they had opened your freakin' brain up and showed you the CTE crawlin' around on it's knees you would have told those duns to close that joint back up with some duck tape because yo contract ain't guaranteed. 

You can't have your cake and eat it too! Either you're cool with makin' a king's ransom and havin' health problems in your later years or you're cool with quittin' the game early because of injuries and livin' without the health problems. But you can't do both playa. 

Lil' Ms. Johnson and Mr. Willie down the street worked at the steel mill for 35 years inhalin' every chemical you could think of and old man Joe across the street cut his darn hand off in the physical plant 20 years ago. They went to work every day to provide for their families and they've got all kinds of health issues and problems that they'll have for the rest of their lives but they aren't blamin' anybody for it. It's called the hazard of the freakin' job pimpin'! So stop tryin' to get folks to feel sorry for you because you've got some health problems but you made more bread than most people could EVER fathom. You sound like a fool tryin' to and stop me when I start lyin'!

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1) Spit: verb - to say
2) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific.
3) Pimpin': noun - the person that I'm passionately tryin' to get me point across to.

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Why examinin' Lawrence Philips' brain won't tell you WHY he killedhimself! "Protocol"

"If you're lookin' for it bruh, you're gonna find it."

Michael Musto,  the well-known journalist, once said, "In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted." Leonardo da Vinci gave it to us like this, "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions." Then William Hazlitt, the 19th century English writer, broke it down so that it would forever be broken when he spit, "Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted." 

Well playas...the concussion issue for the NFL is continuin' to be a problem because the deception is habitual and uninterrupted. Now the attorney for Lawrence Phillips, who committed suicide this week in a California State Prison, is tellin' boyz that his family is goin' to donate his brain to the chronic traumatic encephalopathy researchers at Boston University in an attempt to get an explanation as to why he did it. Keep in mind playa that this is the same attorney that represented ole boy in a law suit of retired NFL players  against the league over concussions.

This dun told a newspaper that Philips' mother wanted an explanation as to what happened, like any mother would, right? So in the typical used car salesman's voice he says, "Look, the only way you can really explain it is by examining his brain." 

Well let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! I've been tellin' you boyz for the past several years that these cats are runnin' game on you. They just started diagnosin' concussions and havin' protocols in place in the world of sports and especially in football over the last 10 years or so. There weren't any protocols for boyz havin' head trauma for cats that played prior to that time period! Back in the day when a boy took a head shot they drug him off of the field, gave him some smellin' salt and kept it movin'. 

So any cat that is of that age (40 plus) whether they played in the NFL or not would more than likely have some trace of CTE in his brain if you were to examine it. Donatin' Lawrence Philips brain to Boston University is a complete waste of time. Why? Because I can tell you right now that his brain will have some trace of CTE! WHY? Because he played football durin' a time period when there weren't rules for protectiin' players against head trauma!!! 

You're goin' to find what you're lookin' for because you're lookin' at the brain of a prime candidate for CTE! What you're not goin' to find is the "Why did he kill himself?" Unless you can talk to him you're not goin' to find out why he did it. I can give you any number of reasons as to why he did it but I can't prove any of them. 

This dun was already in prison doin' a 30 year bid! Then he killed a boy and was currently lookin' at a death penalty if he were to be convicted of that crime. So those are two freakin' legitimate reasons why he "could" have killed himself right there bruh  But we'll never know! Why? Because we can't talk to him and ask him why! 

Former athletes die every day that have CTE but we never find out that they have it because the person may have died of a heart attack, from cancer, or in a car accident etc. If you don't open his freakin' brain up and look for it you'll never know that he had it. The only time that boyz are examinin' brains is when a dun commits suicide that used to play football durin' an era that didn't have protocols in place to protect them.

If they weren't diagnosin' concussions durin' the time that these cats played and they've experienced head trauma, more than likely they're goin' to have CTE. Why? Because CTE develops as a result of chronic head trauma!!! But that doesn't mean that if he commits suicide that it was solely because of the CTE. That isn't the only reason people commit suicide bruh!!! What about the dun that is depressed that has never set foot on a football field that kills him or herself? What about the kid that is bullied at school or the dun that jumps off of a freakin' buildin' because they're goin' through a divorce or lost all of his bread? There are hundreds of reasons as to why people kill themselves. 

If you're lookin' for CTE in a person that played football durin' a time period before protocols were put into place you're goin' to find it?  But if a former player kills himself in prison lookin' at a death penalty conviction and you find traces of CTE in his brain you can't PROVE that he did it because he had CTE. No more than you can prove that Junior Seau committed suicide because of CTE and so on and so forth. The only way that you can deduce that CTE is the sole reason is if ONLY people with CTE commit suicide and that simply isn't the case. And you can only blame the NFL if the dun played durin' an era when they were diagnosin' concussions with protocols in place, he was cleared to play and shouldn't have been playin'. 

Otherwise, this attorney is workin' boyz over to try to make some money off of the unfortunate death of a former player. Stop me when I start lyin'! 

Playas Thesaurus: 
1) Spit: verb - to say
2) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific. 
3) Bid: noun  - a prison term

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Why boyz are wastin' folk's time tellin' them that Frank Gifford hadCTE! "Small Pox"

"It's better than leather but it still hurts when I get hit!" 

Lao Tzu, the ancient Chinese poet and philosopher, once said, "Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." Friedrich Nietzsche, the 19th century German philosopher, hit boyz off with this, "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man." Then Mr. Willie down at the car wash kept it 100 when he said, "It is what it is pimp! So deal with it and move on!"

Well playas...Mr. Willie gave the best advice that a boy could EVER give! Learn how to deal with reality and move on. The family of Pro Football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford says signs of the degenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) was found in his brain. Ole boy died a few months ago and his family donated his brain to research. In a statement released through NBC News his family said that he "experienced firsthand" symptoms of CTE. However, he died of natural causes back in August at the crib at age 84. 

Now let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! I'm sick and tired of boyz hollerin' about these old cats sufferin' from CTE when they didn't start diagnosing concussions in all sports until about 10 to 15 years ago bruh! So ANYBODY that played football prior to that for ANY length of time will probably have some trace or form of CTE if you cut their freakin' brains open. 

However, CTE can't be diagnosed until you cut the brain open. So how many former athletes and specifically football players, not just professional football players, have died in a car accident or had a heart attack that didn't have their brains donated that actually had CTE too? More than likely darn near all of them. 

Frank Gifford was 84 freakin' years old bruh! He was 20 years old before they started wearin' plastic helmets in the 1950's and they weren't worth two dead flies smashed. So therefore, he played his ENTIRE adolescent football career in a leather helmet and the rest of his career in a plastic boy that was merely plastic!!! So even if that dun hadn't played in the NFL and you cut his brain open he was probably goin' to show signs of CTE! Why? Because CTE is linked to repeated trauma to the brain!!! For all of you simple minded individuals that constant hits to the head. 

So ANYBODY that suffers constant hits to the brain will more than likely suffer from CTE. Stop actin' like the NFL is at fault here. These are grown "A" men that have made millions of dollars as a result of either their contracts while playin' in the league or from the fame that the league garnered them. 

Do you realize that the average salary in America is $29K and the average salary in the NFL is $1.9 million. Sure, boyz weren’t makin' that type of bread when Frank was playin' but neither were workin' class people. So the scale just moved because it's all relative. Either way, these cats that played in the NFL were makin' waaaaay more bread than Ms. Wanda and Uncle Buck were makin'  down at the steel mill, I'll tell you that. 

But check this out playa, they're strugglin' with the same issues that former players are screamin' about and they made a minimum wage or merely an average salary for the better part of their lives. Cats that worked in factories and steel mills are sufferin' from lung disease and cancer because of the job and they're poor! So excuse me for not feelin' sorry for rich former football players for havin' CTE. Even if they knew that it wasn't a good idea to run into a boy with their heads for an extended period of time. They didn't have to call it a concussion for a boy to have a headache and know that this ain't good for me long term. Stop it! You sound crazy!  

Frank Gifford lived to be 84 years old and that dun was rich beyond measure. If he had CTE from his job years ago then that was a risk that he took simply goin' to work every day like EVERY workin' class individual in America. 

Sure, he didn't know that what he was doin' was puttin' himself at risk of havin' CTE or even concussions for that matter. Why? Because they weren't callin' them concussions at the time! I'm 48 and when I was playin' ball as a kid and even into high school and for my very short period of time in college they weren't classifyin' them as concussions. If you got blown up they would drag yo butt off of the field, give you some smellin' salt, ask you what your name was and send you right back out there. That was the protocol bruh! And I'm 48! Frank Gifford was 84!!!! Therefore, you completely wasted your time cuttin' his brain open. 

That's like when boyz cut Junior Seau's brain open. He played linebacker in the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE FOR 20 YEARS!!!! Not to mention the 11 or so he played the game prior to goin' to the league. He was only 43 when he died!! So therefore he exposed himself to repeated head trauma for 31 of the 43 years he was alive and you're surprised that he had brain damage? That wasn't on the NFL bruh! That was on Junior! It's called personal responsibility for your own safety. At some point you gotta say, "Man this ain't worth it. I've made enough bread and now I've gotta get out." Why? Because the risks outweigh the benefits. You can't run into a freakin' brick wall for 20 plus years and expect to walk away without your brain in bein' in shambles. That's on Junior and anybody else that's decides to play this game for that long. 

Let's concern ourselves with the safety and well-being of the players playin' now at all ages because we have the science and technology to prevent these types of injuries. But you're completely wastin' folks time tellin' them about an 84 year old rich guy that played the game 60 years ago. What he was exposed to 60 years ago isn't even relevant today. The rules have completely changed and safety measures are in place to help prevent head injuries at the same rate. 

That's like tellin' me that Grandma Lucy contracted Small Pox or the bubonic plague. And answer this question pimpin'? Who are the millions of people that have played this game prior to the concussion protocol diagnosis, that never made it to the league goin' to complain to or sue?  And let me remind all of you simple minded individuals that want to make a big deal of Frank Gifford havin' CTE. The dun didn't die as a result of CTE bruh! He died of natural causes! Stop me when I start lyin'! 

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Steel Mills (Why Junior Seau's family and the rest of these duns suin'the NFL need a reality check)

Junior Seau enters the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Lao Tzu once said, "Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." Friedrich Nietzsche hit boyz off with this, "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man." Then Mr. Willie down at the car wash kept it 100 when he said, "It is what it is pimp! So deal with it and move on!"

Well playas...the big homie Junior Seau was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday night. However, not without the green elephant standin' in the room with his pants down because the NFL really didn't want his daughter to speak live at the induction ceremony because of the impendin' law suit that the family has filed against the league. However, cooler heads prevailed and she was able to speak on her father's behalf. But you already know some dun got in her ear and said don't bring up the concussion foolishness because you can't prove anything other than the fact that he had CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy)!

What blows my mind is all of the sensationalism that the media is usin' to talk about all of these former NFL players, includin' Seau, that are comin' forward with the CTE diagnosis! Duns like Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett and cats like former All-Pro wide receiver Mark Duper became the ninth livin' player to be diagnosed with it. Joe DeLamielleure and All-Pro Leonard Marshall have been tested and diagnosed as well. Five other ex-players were tested and received the same diagnosis back in January.

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st playboy! If you cut open the brains of ANY cat that played football at any level for any length of time that is 45 years old or older you'll find evidence of CTE! Why? Because there were no freakin' rules in place for the safety of players as it related to concussions at that time.

In that era it was common practice for a boy to get blown up, drug off of the field not knowin' his freakin' name, given smellin' salt and told to go get 'em! That was even down to Pop Warner bruh! Who didn't see stars multiple times a week? It was the norm at the time.

Like I’ve said in multiple Hot Joints in the past, the medical community didn’t start diagnosin' what are now called concussions in sports and in football in particular until about 10 or 15 years ago. So all of these duns that are linin' up with CTE diagnosis lookin' for public sympathy that are 45 years old or older that played in the ‘70’s, ‘80’s and early ‘90’s are playin' themselves bruh. 

There are tons of boyz that never even made it to the NFL that are walkin' around with the same freakin' problems that these cats that were paid a king's ransom relative to what the regular workin' class cat was paid for just goin' to work. What else do these cats want? They already hustled the NFL out of $875 million last summer bruh? Take the bread and run!

That's like a boy tryin' to sue the Ford Motor Company for the wrongful death of Aunt Lucy that died in a car acident in 1973 because she wasn't wearin' a seat belt. There were no seat belt laws in place at the time bruh. There were seat belts in the ride but you didn't have to wear it. Or that's like a dun tryin' to sue Marlboro because Uncle Willie died of lung cancer in 1968. There were no warnin' labels on cigarettes back then so you can't show up in 2015 lookin' for some bread.

So what are boyz that are sufferin' from brain injuries that only played Pop Warner, high school and college ball supposed to do? Nobody is feelin' sorry for them! Tony Dorsett is sittin' up there talkin' about how he goes to the store and by the time he gets there he's forgotten what he went there for. How many duns do you know that that happens to that never even touched a football bruh? Are you kiddin' me? Old man Mr. Joe makes 4 or 5 runs to the store daily because he can’t remember what he left home for. 

That was the profession that these duns chose and now they're dealin' with the reality of what they signed up for just like everybody else that worked a dangerous job in America. Even if they would have told them that later in life they’re goin' to have some brain trauma from runnin' into cats with their head, how many of these players would have quit? Not a single one!

What about the guy that worked in the steel mill for 35 years, retires and finds out that he’s got lung cancer from all of the chemicals that he was exposed to all of those years? Who’s feelin' sorry for him? Is ABC News runnin' out to his crib tryin' to interview him? Absolutely not! Are they feelin' sorry for Ms. Wanda down the street because she’s got early onset dementia because of the overexposure to chemicals down at the factory she worked at for 40 years? Not at all! But she's takin' it like a G because that's what she had to do to make a livin'. 

The average salary in America is $29K and the average salary in the NFL is $1.9 million playboy. Sure, boyz weren’t makin' that type of bread 30 years ago but neither were workin' class people. So the scale just moved because it's all relative. Either way, these cats that played in the NFL were makin' waaaaay more bread than Ms. Wanda and Uncle Buck were makin' I'll tell you that. But check this out playa, they're strugglin' with the same issues that former players are screamin' about and they made a minimum wage salary for the better part of their lives. So you can go head on with that foolishness!

I'm from Gary, Indiana and everybody’s dad worked in the steel mills for years and are now strugglin' with something. I had classmates that lost their fathers to accidents on the job. Boyz lost limbs and got burned half to death and you got rich playin' a game and you want a boy to feel sorry for you? At least you came home every night and lived like a king! Where I'm from cats were dyin' tryin' to make a regular livin' and those that were able to retire after 30 years in the mill didn't get to enjoy it because the chemicals all but ate them up. So excuse me for not listenin' to all of this foolishness that ESPN and these former players are tryin' to sell me because boyz are havin' difficulty later in life!

On some real talk, Junior Seau lined up at linebacker in the NFL for 20 freakin' years and ran into boyz with his head. Not to mention the 10 or so years he played the game before enterin' the league. He was only 43 when he died. So for more than 30 of the 43 years of his life he played a violent game and put himself at risk of all types of head trauma. It's only natural for a boy to be depressed as he retires because his life is turned upside down because he's no longer doin' what he's always done. Now I have no idea why ole boy killied himself but you can't put it on the NFL because he made the decision to play this game for as long as he did. Nobody else bruh! So at what point does an individual have to take responsibility for his own life and the choices he makes? Stop me when I start lyin'! 

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2) G: noun - gangsta

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Whinin' (Why these former NFL players filing suit are startin' to soundlike Keith Sweat)

"I should sue the dun that sold me this tie and hand band too!"

The ancient Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu, once said, "Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher, hit boyz off with this, "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man." Then Mr. Willie, the retired street hustler, down at the car wash shut the building down with, "It is what it is pimp! So deal with it and move on!" 

Y'all know how I like to do bruh. I sit in the cut and let all of the dull talkin' heads give it to you on a superficial level and then I break it down for you in real terms. In other words, I just put it where the goats can get it. Less than a year ago the NFL settled a ridiculous concussion lawsuit for $675 million for a bunch of duns tryin' to money grab. They may as well have put on a ski mask and ran up in the NFL league office like Jada Pinket and Queen Latifah and set that joint off. Now we've got more than 600 former players filing a lawsuit claimin' that the league illegally supplied them narcotics and other painkillers that numbed their injuries for games that have now led to medical complications down the road.

Like I’ve said in multiple Hot Joints in the past, the medical community didn’t start diagnosing what are now called concussions in sports and in football in particular until a little more than 10 years ago. Nor were there any rules in place to stipulate protocol in the event of one. So all of these duns that are lining up with CTE diagnosis lookin' for public sympathy and bread that are 45 years old or older that played in the ‘70’s, ‘80’s and early ‘90’s are playin' themselves. 

That's like some dun tryin' to sue General Motors because his mother died in the car accident in 1973 because she wasn't wearing a seat belt! There were no seat belt laws at that time. Now you've got duns tryin' to get even more bread out of the league like the first suit wasn't enough. Now the league is at fault because a boy voluntarily took painkillers in order to play and not sit out of games. That's like Michael Jackson suing all of the concert promoters because he got addicted to painkillers while touring. He didn't have to take them but he didn't want to miss any shows and he wanted that bread.

 Let me just say this pimpin', welcome to the real world!  Boyz have always had jobs in this country that have destroyed their bodies and who are they gonna sue? If football was the profession that you chose then it is what it is playa. Now you're dealing with the reality of what you signed up for just like everybody else that worked a dangerous job in America. Even if they would have told you that later in life you were going to have some brain trauma from running into cats with your head or have some medical problems down the line from abusing painkillers, would you have quit? Not at all! You wanted to play and you did whatever you had to do to stay on the field.

Can you imagine the National Crack Head Association suing boyz 30 years from now because they're seeing a rise in COPD, dementia and hallucinations? What is the world comin' to bruh! Now you played the most violent of game on the face of the planet and you didn't think that you were gonna have some type of medical problems down the line? You abused painkillers every freakin' day of your life for 10 years and you didn't think that it was gonna knock on your door with his pants down at some point?

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Nobody out here is feelin' sorry for some cats that made ridiculous bread over the course of their careers and now they've got some medical problems! What about the guy that worked in the steel mill for 35 years, retires and finds out that he’s got lung cancer from all of the chemicals that he was exposed to all of those years? Who’s feelin' sorry for him? Is ABC/ESPN News running out to his crib tryin' to interview him? Can he sue the freakin' mill because he chose to go to that joint everyday for 35 years? Absolutely not! Is anybody  feelin' sorry for Ms. Wanda down the street because she’s got early onset dementia because of the overexposure to chemicals down at the factory where she worked for 40 years? Not at all! But she's takin' it like a G because that's what she had to do to make a livin'. 

The average salary in America is $27K and the average salary in the NFL is $1.9 million playboy. Sure, boyz weren’t making that type of bread 30 years ago but neither were workin' class people. So the scale just moved. Either way, these cats that played in the NFL were making way more bread than Ms. Wanda and Uncle Buck was makin' I'll tell you that. But check this out playa, they're strugglin' with same issues that former players are screamin' about and they made a minimum wage salary for the better part of their lives. So you can go head on with that foolishness! 

I'm from Gary, Indiana and everybody’s daddy worked in the steel mills for years and are now strugglin' with somethin'. I had classmates that lost their fathers to accidents on the job. Died tyin' to make a livin' do you hear me? Boyz lost limbs and got burned half to death and you got rich playin a freakin' game and you want a boy to feel sorry for you? At least you came home every night and lived like a king even if you didn't make millions per year! The minimum wage in the league is $420K! In the real world it's $7.20 an hour bruh! So you sound like a darn fool complainin' about bein' taken advantage of knowin' full well that you got in line to get the painkillers so that you could play. And that's the edited version bruh!

There are three cats from the 1985 Chicago Bears Super Bowl championship team named on the current law suit as well. You've got the punky QB Jim McMahon, Hall of Famer Richard Dent and offensive lineman Keith Van Horne tryin' to get some bread knowin' that they wanted that title more than they thought about their health 30 years later. That's like D. Wade suing the NBA in twenty years because he's havin' medical problems as a result of takin' shots and painkillers now because his knees are shot. He's tryin' to win a another championship and he fully understands what's goin' on. That dun can't even feel his toes at this point bruh. I bet he falls off of the toilet every morning because he can't feel his own butt. So stop with this foolishness bruh! It's clearly a money grab.

 Where I'm from cats were dyin' tryin' to make a regular living and those that were able to retire after 30 years in the mill didn't get to enjoy it because the chemicals ate them up. So excuse me for not listenin' to all of this foolishness that the dull media and these former players are tryin' to sell me. Go ask Ms. Wanda that's still livin' in the hood how she's feelin' this mornin' before you get on somebody's radio show and start whinin' like Keith Sweat up in this piece. Stop me when I start lyin'! 

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Ms. Wanda's Reality! (Why folks in the real world ain't feelin' sorryfor boyz with CTE diagnosis)

"You right bruh! I still would have kept playing!"

Lao Tzu once said, "Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like." Friedrich Nietzsche hit boyz off with this, "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man." Then Mr. Willie down at the car wash kept it 100 when he said, "It is what it is pimp! So deal with it and move on!" 

What blows my mind is all of the sensationalism that the media is using to talk about all of these former NFL players that are coming forward with the CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) diagnosis! Earlier this week we heard from Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett and on Friday former All-Pro wide receiver Mark Duper became the ninth living player to be diagnosed with it. Joe DeLamielleure and All-Pro Leonard Marshall were tested and diagnosed over the past three months at UCLA. Five other ex-players were tested and received the same diagnosis in January.

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st playboy! If you cut open the brains of ANY cat that played football at any level for any length of time that is 45 years old or older you'll find evidence of CTE! Why? Because there were no freakin' rules in place for the safety of players as it related to concussions at that time.

At that time it was common practice for a boy to get blown up, drug off of the field not knowing his freakin' name, given smelling salt and told to go get 'em! That was even down to Pop Warner bruh!  Who didn't see stars multiple times a week? It was the norm at the time.

Like I’ve said in multiple Hot Joints in the past, the medical community didn’t start diagnosing what are now called concussions in sports and in football in particular until about 10 years ago. So all of these duns that are lining up with CTE diagnosis looking for public sympathy that are 45 years old or older that played in the ‘70’s, ‘80’s and early ‘90’s are playing themselves bruh. 

There are tons of boyz that never even made it to the NFL that are walking around with the same freakin' problems that these cats that were paid a king's ransom relative to what the regular working class cat was paid for just going to work. What else do these cats want? They already hustled the NFL out of $875 million last summer bruh? Take the bread and run!  

So what are boyz that are suffering from brain injuries that only played Pop Warner, high school and college ball supposed to do? Nobody is feeling sorry for them! Tony Dorsett is sitting up there talking about how he goes to the store and by the time he gets there he's forgotten what he went there for. How many duns do you know that that happens to that never even touched a football bruh? Are you kidding me? Old man Mr. Joe makes 4 or 5 runs to the store daily because he can’t remember what he left home for. 

That was the profession that these duns chose and now you're dealing with the reality of what you signed up for just like everybody else that worked a dangerous job in America. Even if they would have told you that later in life you’re going to have some brain trauma from running into cats with your head, how many of these players would have quit? Not a single one!

What about the guy that worked in the steel mill for 35 years, retires and finds out that he’s got lung cancer from all of the chemicals that he was exposed to all of those years? Who’s feeling sorry for him? Is ABC News running out to his crib trying to interview him? Absolutely not! Are they feeling sorry for Ms. Wanda down the street because she’s got early onset dementia because of the overexposure of chemicals down at the factory she worked at for 40 years? Not at all! But she's taking it like a G because that's what she had to do to make a living. 

The average salary in America is $27K and the average salary in the NFL is $1.9 million playboy. Sure, boyz weren’t making that type of bread 30 years ago but neither were working class people. So the scale just moved. Either way, these cats that played in the NFL were making way more bread than Ms. Wanda and Uncle Buck was making I'll tell you that. But check this out playa, they're struggling with same issues that former players are screaming about and they made a minimum wage salary for the better part of their lives. So you can go head on with that foolishness! 

I'm from Gary, Indiana and everybody’s dad worked in the steel mills for years and are now struggling with something. I had classmates that lost their fathers to accidents on the job. Boyz lost limbs and got burned half to death and you got rich playing a game and you want a boy to feel sorry for you? At least you came home every night and lived like a king! Where I'm from cats were dying for a regular living and those that were able to retire after 30 years in the mill didn't get to enjoy it because the chemicals ate them up. So excuse me for not listening to all of this foolishness that ESPN and these former players are trying to sell me! Stop me when I start lyin'! 

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The Money Grab (NFL settles with a bunch of hustlas)

"They just closed the bank on current players bruh! What?"

King Abdullah II once said, “Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.” Big Momma would always say, “Everybody in the projects ain’t project.” Mr. Willie down at the car wash used to say, “If you stand out here long enough you’ll learn how to recognize a con man just by the way he walks.”

The NFL should have hung out at the car wash with Mr. Willie while they were growing up because they got pushed into a corner by a gang of hustla’s and got beat for $765 million just like that playboy! The league reached a tentative settlement over concussion-related brain injuries among its 18,000 retired players. They’ve agreed to compensate victims, pay for medical exams and underwrite research but did not admit to any wrong doing and the bank is now closed all current players.

Now on some real talk, they should pay for long term insurance, medical exams and pay to underwrite research because it’s the right thing to do. However, they shouldn’t be forced to take care of boyz that signed up to play a dangerous game where injuries are commonplace and inevitable.

The high profile suicide of Junior Seau forced the league into a dark alley with a stick and a dull water gun even though boyz couldn’t prove that the Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) found in his brain was responsible for his death. Anybody that has played ball for an extended period of time and that has suffered multiple concussions will have evidence of CTE if you cut their brains open whether they committ suicide or not. That doesn’t mean that those death's were the NFL's fault.

How much blame does Junior Seau take in all of this for playing in the NFL for freakin’ 20 years? Who does that? He wasn’t a kicker playboy! He was a middle linebacker for crying out loud! That means that he took head shots every day all day, not to mention all of the years before he even made it to the league. And who’s to say that he wasn’t just depressed that his life was turned upside down because for 30 plus years he played ball and now he’s got nothing to look forward too. You can’t sue for that bruh but you can sue the NFL for brain a CTE if you can get the public to believe that he killed himself as a result of it!

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Can the crack head can sue a boy because he can’t duplicate the high he was on when people cheered his name while he was playing now that he’s out of the league and on drugs? At some point cats gotta be responsible for their own health and safety and when they got knocked out the first time they had the opportunity to walk away but the bread was too good.

Like I’ve said in multiple Hot Joints in the past, the medical community didn’t start diagnosing what are now called concussions in sports and in football in particular until about 10 years ago. So all of these duns that are lining up for some bread that are 45 years old or older that played in the ‘70’s, ‘80’s and early ‘90’s are on something playboy. It’s called "I’m broke and see an opportunity to money grab."

Boyz are hollering that the league didn’t protect them from injury when there wasn’t a protocol in place to protect them from something that the medical community didn’t fully understand. During that time they called it getting your bell rung. At that point they would drag your butt off of the field, give you that smelling salt and run your butt back out there. That wasn’t just in the NFL either! That was in Pop Warner, high school and college too!

So what are boyz that are suffering from brain injuries that only played Pop Warner, high school and college ball supposed to do now? Who are they going to sue for playing during a period of time when there was no protocol. I completely get a cat trying to sue the league now if he’s put back on the field without being cleared because there is protocol in place to protect him but to go back 30 years is asinine.

Even if they would have told these duns that later in life you’re going to have some brain trauma from running into cats with your head, how many of these players would have quit? None! So to money grab the league later in life is called a hustle where I’m from playboy! That’s like trying the sue the Ford Motor Co. in 2013 because your favorite aunt died in a car accident in 1973 because she wasn’t wearing a seat belt. Or better yet, trying to sue the tobacco industry because your grandfather died of lung cancer in 1968 before they started warning boyz that this stuff will kill you.

Can Big Momma sue the FDA or the pig farmer because PaPa died of a heart attack in 1971 because he ate too much Fat Back, ribs and soul food? What about the dun that worked in the steel mill for 35 years, retires and finds out that he’s got lung cancer from all of the chemicals he was exposed to all of those years? Who’s he gonna sue? Who’s Ms. Wanda down the street gonna sue because she’s got early onset dementia because of the overexposure of chemicals down at the factory for 40 years?

The average salary in America is $27K and the average salary in the NFL is $1.9 million playboy. Sure, boyz weren’t making that type of bread 30 years ago but neither were working class people. Do you really think boyz are feeling sorry for a cat that is struggling with brain injuries when Ms. Wanda and Uncle Buck made minimum wage for the better part of their lives and ended up with the same problems? Really? I'm from Gary, Indiana and everybody's daddy worked in the steel mills for years and are now struggling with something. So don’t run that game on me playa because I can spot a hustla a mile away. Boyz went through all of their bread and now the money grab is on! It's just that simple!

These cats can holler and scream bloody murder all they want but they were well compensated for their services and they continuously signed up for it. They made far more bread than Joe Blow down at the mill or down at the lumber yard that now have debilitating injuries that they just have to live with. Like I said before, I do think that the league should have better long term care for boyz but they shouldn’t be responsible for a cat that spent all of his bread that now wants to money grab just because he can. I’m done preachin’ but you can still pass the collection plate even if some former player tries to rob it! Stop me when I start lyin' playboy!

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Rock & Hard Places (Who's to blame for Dustin's Injury?)

"Sorry playboy, I had no other options!"

Blaise Pasca, the French mathematician and physicist, once said, “Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.” William Blake, the English poet, gave it to us like this, “Do what you will, this word’s a fiction and his made up of contradiction.” Then Alfred North Whitehead, the English philosopher and mathematician, thought that he was shutting the building down when he said, “In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in the progress toward a victory.”

Sometimes you’re better off just saying that you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place playboy. Miami Dolphins tight end Dustin Keller tore his ACL, PCL and MCL and also dislocated his knee this past weekend when rookie safety D.J. Swearinger went low to tackle him. For all of you duns that are confused by all of the alphabets, he tore that joint up and may not play again pimp!

Ole boy said that he went low to avoid getting fined for a head to head hit. At this point anything near the head draws a fine.

“The rules say you can’t hit high so I went low and I’m sorry that happened, “ Swearinger told the Palm Beach Post. “I would think you’d rather have more concussions than leg injuries. Leg injury, you can’t come back from that. A concussion, you be back in a couple of weeks”

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! To a man, Key, C.C., Mike Ditka and T. J. said on Monday Night Countdown that they would rather have a concussion than a leg injury because you can come back from that in a week or two. I get the logic playboy! However, the NFL isn’t getting sued by boyz that have career ending knee injuries. Cats aren’t lining up with ACL and MCL tears and putting the league at risk.

Don’t get me wrong I feel the same way Swearinger and the guys on Monday Night Countdown do about this situation. But you gotta understand the position that the NFL is in when former players are out for a money grab when they file law suits after the fact. It’s dull all the way around. When duns try to take advantage of the league, the league has to protect itself.

By no means should a cat in his early to mid 40’s or older be filing a law suit against the league because he suffered from concussions while playing. Why? Because it’s only been within the last 8 to 10 years that medical science has been diagnosing concussions in team sports particularly in football. Back in the day a boy would take a shot, get knocked out, they would drag his butt to the sideline and give him some smelling salt. Within a play or two that dun was back in the game like nothing happen. It was a risk boyz willing took.

So how in the world can you justify filing a law suit 20 to 30 years later? That’s like a boy suing the Ford Motor Company because his mom died in a car accident in 1980 because she wasn’t wearing a seat belt, when there wasn’t any seat belt laws in place at the time. Are you freakin’ kidding me?

Even if the league had been diagnosing concussions and told those same cats in line for the law suits today that they couldn’t play for two weeks they would have been fighting the medical staff for their helmets and defiantly running out on the field. Stop me when I start lyin’! So when I hear Tom Jackson and Mike Ditka saying that the NFL is doing the players a disservice with the new rules I laugh because the thieves have given them no choice but to make those decisions.

It’s like when Joe Clark put the chains on the doors to keep the drug dealers out of the school and the Fire Commissioner says that he’s in violation of the Fire Code. My schools always had chains on the doors to keep the thugs out during school hours when I was growing up. We took our chances with the fire bruh that never happened.

If boyz weren’t blaming the NFL for suicides and early on stage dementia then Dustin Keller would be taking a concussion test today instead coming out of surgery and possibly looking at a career ending injury. Is it the league's fault that he’s hurt or the selfish duns that spent all of their bread that are now trying to get over on the league now by filing a suit after the fact? You tell me, I’m waiting.

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Causality

Who's to blame bruh?

Cause and effect refers to the philosophical concept of causality, in which an action or event will produce a certain response to the action in the form of another event. In other words homeboy, if you do this, this will happen as a result of it. For example, if you steal a boyz car in the ghetto and he catches you and shoots you. You died as a direct result of being a car thief! I think that's simple enough to understand don't you?

Researchers have reported that Junior Seau did in fact suffer from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. A type of brain damage also found in dozens of former players. However, just because ole boy suffered from CTE doesn’t prove that he committed suicide because of it and you can’t blame the NFL for his death because he did in fact put himself at risk for more than 20 years.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Junior played LINEBACKER in the NFL for 20 years not kicker! That means that he was in the middle of the pile on every play his entire career. Only recently within the last 7 to 10 years has the medical community been diagnosing concussions in football. Therefore, anyone that played the game whether it was the NFL or not that is at least 40 years old or older would be at risk of having some form of CTE. On some real talk, Seau had 7 to 10 years to retire after the standard of care changed when they started diagnosing joints, right?

I’m the same age as Seau and when we were kids, boyz suffered from what were concussions all of the time but they weren’t called concussions. It was called getting your bell rung. When you got up dizzy, seeing stars and feeling nauseous the trainers would give you the smelling salt and send you back out on the field. Was it right? Absolutely not! However, that was the standard of care at the time.

So it’s plausible to say that most cats of our age group that played ball at any level will have some evidence of CTE if you cut their brains open. Let’s say a cat only played in high school or college. Can he sue the schools for him having evidence of CTE 20 or 30 years later when there wasn't a standard of care for diagnosing concussions in place? Sounds rather stupid doesn’t it?

Think about the amount of cats that have died from a heart attack, car accident, cancer, lung disease etc. that didn’t have their brains cut open that had CTE. You found it in the guys that you were looking for it in because they fit the descriptions of the suspects! Someone that had a long history of head trauma! That’s like your girl going through your phone because she suspects that you’ve been dirty. She's gonna find what she’s looking for because she’s looking for it, pimpin’!

So to blame the NFL for Seau’s death even after these findings would be irresponsible. Let’s keep it 100! Seau was 43 when he died and he played in the NFL for 20 years. Not to mention that he played little league, high school and college. So he played football for more that 30 years of his life. It's a miracle that he could even function after playing that long! So therefore, isn't it highly plausible that he could have been depressed because the one thing that he’s done his entire life has been taken from him? That’s completely normal!

Boyz go through depression all of the time that have life altering events like that because their normal routine has been shifted. We don’t know what Seau was going through. He could have broken up with his girl, been having financial problems etc., you just don’t know! But to say that because he suffered from CTE and that he killed himself because of it and that it's the NFL's fault, would be irresponsible because there is no absolute cause and effect for his actions.

That's like a guy that has worked in the steel mill for 35 years and comes home one night, gets into an argument with his wife, shoots and kills himself! They do an autopsy and find that he suffered from lung cancer from working at the mill for 35 years from breathing in all of the chemicals. Can you then blame the mill for him shooting himself because he was depressed? Let's keep it real, lung cancer causes depression too.

That's what boyz are doing by trying to blame his death on the NFL and not looking at the fact that he abused his brain for more than 30 years. That's like a dun getting upset with the cigarette company for his diagnoses of lung cancer when he smoked for 45 years and for 20 years they told him it was a health risk.

These cats have to be responsible for their own safety too. Was it smart to play LINEBACKER in the NFL for 20 years? Who puts themselves through that type of pain for that long? Somewhere along the line you've got to be responsible for your own well being too. Just like RG3 tearing his LCL and ACL by going back into the game when he was clearly hurt. Boyz want to blame Shanahan but RG3 told him that he was good and the doctors cleared him to go back in. So who’s to blame? Remember when cats ripped Jay Cutler a couple of years ago for not going back into the playoff game and sitting the joint out? He was looking out for his well being bruh and that was smart even though it wasn't popular!!

If you play in the freaking NFL for 20 years you’re gonna have some major problems when you walk away if you can! That’s why I don’t blame Jim Brown and Barry Sanders for getting out before the ink dried on their contracts because they wanted to be able to walk away literally. Earl Campbell can't blame the NFL for being in a wheel chair now because he chose not to avoid contact during his career.

You have no recourse if there wasn’t a standard of care set in place for the diagnosis of concussions at the time you played! On some real talk, how many boyz would have turned in their equipment if they had been given the option of retiring early because of head trauma? Zero bruh! As a matter of fact, Seau retired and then came back! I'm not saying that the CTE wasn't caused by football because it clearly was. However, you can't prove that it caused his death!

Now in no way am I trying to be unsympathetic to the passing of a football giant and a great person. However, I am just explaining to you that there is no clear cause and effect here but someone is at fault and boyz just don't want to see it!

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The Set Up

"Boy that's REALLY gonna hurt in about 20 years bruh!"

The early 21st century author Dashiell Hammett once wrote, “Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.” The comedian Steve Martin was very profound when he said, “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” These are both quotes that simply state the obvious bruh! I’m always blown away by folks that think that they’re saying something that is ground breaking but in reality they’re not even close.

This week the results of a study of former NFL players found that they were unusually prone to dying from degenerative brain disease, the latest indication that repeated blows to the head may cause serious trouble. Duh?? It went on to say that Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease combined was about 3 times that of the general population.

Is this really news bruh or thought provoking? All that study did was state the obvious! That’s like doing a study on drive by shootings in the hood and finding that young cats that are gang affiliated are more prone to being shoot and killed in the street by bullets than the general population. While you’re at it do a study on lung disease and report that people that smoke are more susceptible to dying from lung related illness. Also people that drive 100 mph blind folded with no hands are more likely to have an accident than folks that don’t.

My background is in pharmaceutical sales and I decipher clinical studies for a living bruh. The key to reading clinicals is to pay close attention to the set up. Don’t start with the results section of the joint, start with the methods section and then on to the statistical analysis. The results mean absolutely nothing to you until you understand how it was put together. Understanding that first will always explain to you why the results look the way they do. It’s like looking only at Boise State’s record of being 10-0 in past years before you've looked at who they have played. Most importantly, finding out who funded the study will tell you why the results look the way that do too unless it was done independently.

What’s so crazy is that the obvious isn’t so obvious to folks that should know better. I’ve sat in the cut and listened to all kinds of so called sports experts talk about these results like it was a major revelation and that the NFL is in trouble because of them. Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! If you put on a helmet and ran into the side of the house at full speed for let’s say 20 years of your life (Pop Warner thru the NFL). You would more than likely have problems with your brain later in life. If you did drugs for an extended period of time you would be 10 times more likely to have some problems as you got older, if you get older. If you ate candy everyday for 30 years you would be 100 times more likely to have rotten teeth sooner rather than later. We don’t need clinical studies to tell us that bruh!

What cats don’t talk about is the fact that the medical community just recently started diagnosing concussions in all sports but in football more specifically within the last decade. There has been extensive research done lately to understand the correlation between football and head injuries. So it’s asinine for former players, especially those 40 plus, to try to sue the league as a result of problems they are experiencing when there was no data available to suggest the relationship between the two at the time they played. While we're keeping it real, boyz wouldn't have turned in their equipment if some dun had released a study to suggest the correlation 20 years ago anyway. The bread was too good to walk away from! Well let's just say this, it was better than working a real job everyday! That's real talk!!!

If you haven’t read the Hot Joint make sure to pop the link on "Hindsight IS 20/20" that further explains why I believe that boyz are out for a money grab by trying to sue the league. Now that we have the data to suggest what the dangers are and if a kid is sent back onto the playing field, then and only then should the league, school etc. be responsible.

I saw where the Cowboys tight end Jason Witten suffered from a lacerated spleen during the preseason. Earlier this week it was reported that he was willing to sign a waiver to play in the season opener because he hadn’t at that point been cleared by the doctors to play. However, a specialist in New York cleared him at the last minute. What happens if later in life Witten has problems with his spleen? Who would be on the hook for it, Jason or the specialist? Legally the specialist would but Witten put himself in danger by not sitting out and being safe in the first place. However, ole boy will be ready to sue anybody he can in 20 years if that spleen starts acting up. I’m just sayin’!

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Jay Graves

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