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Message: [QUOTE="huskyd, post: 2340383, member: 6488"] Lawyers were created to keep folks from taking responsibility for their actions. The Hernandez family is now suing the NFL for culpability in Aaron's death by suicide. [U]They shouldn't get a nickel[/U]. Any athlete who plays a contact sport, especially one with an accumulating record of debilitating brain injury like football, must understand the risk. Same for boxers. You don't even need scientific evidence of likely injury to guess that constant trauma to the head (and other parts) is likely to result in something bad. Any professional athlete who chooses to play a contact sport implicitly accepts the risk and should not complain (in the absence of negligence on a team's part) about the outcome. Someone on the BY noted the passing of Jake LaMotta at 95—amazing longevity for a boxer. Not sure if there was an autopsy, but LaMotta's specialty was playing “possum” by letting his opponent bang him in the head for 8 rounds or so and then exploding into an all-out attack. Muhammed Ali used a similar tactic with his “rope-a-dope.” Ali now suffers from Parkinson's, though there is no established connection between that disease and trauma-induced brain injury. Many suspect that if his Parkinson's was not caused by boxing, it certainly wasn't helped by it. Now the question is: are [U]fans of football and boxing complicit in the injury and death of athletes [/U]by supporting these violent sports? Responsibility is a puddle capable of expanding outward. Head bang [/QUOTE]

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