Stealing this swipe from imcvspl in GD - it's crazy that this story isn't all over the news. I'm done with the NFL. Yeah that's easy to me to say as a Lions fan who's been done with them for years, but still - I'm done.

https://apnews.com/article/pa-state-wire-race-and-ethnicity-health-nfl-sports-205b304c0c3724532d74fc54e58b4d1d?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP


NFL pledges to halt ‘race-norming,’ review Black claims

By MARYCLAIRE DALE June 2, 2021

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The NFL on Wednesday pledged to halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive function — in the $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims and review past scores for any potential race bias.

The practice made it harder for Black retirees to show a deficit and qualify for an award. The standards were created in the 1990s in hopes of offering more appropriate treatment to dementia patients, but critics faulted the way they were used to determine payouts in the NFL concussion case.

Wednesday’s announcement comes after a pair of Black players filed a civil rights lawsuit over the practice, medical experts raised concerns and a group of NFL families last month dropped 50,000 petitions at the federal courthouse in Philadelphia — where the lawsuit had been thrown out by the judge overseeing the settlement.

Senior U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody later took the unusual step of asking for a report on the issue. Black retirees hope it will include a breakdown of the nearly $800 million in payouts so far by race. They fear the data will never come to light.

“Words are cheap. Let’s see what they do,” said former Washington running back Ken Jenkins, whose wife Amy Lewis led the petition drive on behalf of NFL friends struggling with cognitive problems. Jenkins, an insurance executive, has so far been spared.

According to the NFL, a panel of neuropsychologists formed recently to propose a new testing regime to the court includes two female and three Black doctors.

“The replacement norms will be applied prospectively and retrospectively for those players who otherwise would have qualified for an award but for the application of race-based norms,” the NFL said in a statement issued Wednesday by spokesman Brian McCarthy.

Lead players lawyer Christopher Seeger, who negotiated the 2013 settlement with the NFL, said earlier this year that he had not seen any evidence of racial bias in the administration of the settlement fund. He amended those remarks Wednesday, apologizing for any pain the program has caused.

“I am sorry for the pain this episode has caused Black former players and their families. Ultimately, this settlement only works if former players believe in it, and my goal is to regain their trust and ensure the NFL is fully held to account,” Seeger said in a statement.

The NFL noted that the norms were developed in medicine “to stop bias in testing, not perpetrate it.” And both Seeger and the league said the practice was never mandatory, but left to the discretion of doctors taking part in the settlement program.

However, the NFL appealed some claims filed by Black players if their scores were not adjusted for race.

“If it wasn’t for the wives, who were infuriated by all the red tape involved, it never would have come to be,” Jenkins said of the attention being paid to the issue, three years after lawyers for former Pittsburgh Steelers Kevin Henry and Najeh Davenport say they first raised it.

The binary race norms, when they are used in the testing, assumes that Black patients start with worse cognitive function than whites and other non-Blacks. That makes it harder for them to show a deficit and qualify for an award. Henry and Davenport, for instance, were denied awards but would have qualified had they been white, according to their lawsuit, which Brody dismissed in March, calling it an improper “collateral attack” on the settlement. They have appealed the ruling.

More than 2,000 NFL retirees have filed dementia claims, but fewer than 600 have received awards, according to the most recent report. More than half of all NFL retirees are Black, according to lawyers involved in the litigation.

The awards so far have averaged $516,000 for the 379 players with early-stage dementia and $715,000 for the 207 players with moderate dementia. Retirees can also seek payouts for Alzheimer’s disease and a few other diagnoses. The settlement ended thousands of lawsuits that accused the NFL of long hiding what it knew about the link between concussions and traumatic brain injury.

___ Follow Maryclaire Dale on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Maryclairedale

Done with this league

MFers laughed at Lavar Ball trying to start his own BBall league

Folks need to get out of these organizations.

+1, this would have continued if not for the lawsuits and wives

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I bet some of the players were shrugging on some “typical NFL bullshit babe”

wives turned on PE and got busy.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

at this point. Along with the team organizations, the media, etc. The fact that they go this far to avoid an average of 300k per player when they are making billions? And specifically Black players??? I shouldn't be shocked, but...here we are.


>I bet some of the players were shrugging on some “typical
>NFL bullshit babe”
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>wives turned on PE and got busy.

the LAC

This is another level of racism...but how do you force the people involved in this policy out?

Whole damn system guilty as hell

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Caught some SC yesterday...wasn’t mentioned
OTL spent some of their opening segment on it (maybe 2 minutes)
...then proceeded to go into full blocks on a girl playing football (remember that little girl that went viral)...
...followed by a full block on Rodgers (which I didn’t stick around for)...
Story’s off ESPN’s front page
It’s not even on the NFL’s ESPN homepage
It felt like they were deflecting and suppressing coverage
Where’s the investigative journalism?
We need names
We need everyone involved in this held accountable
But we’re getting airtime for the lawyer that negotiated the deal to make amends?

This a clear cut example of systematic racism...and it’s being YT washed.

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understanding of systematic racism, the posts in GD and OKS aren’t doing any numbers. The people that care about a story like this are numb to this stuff at this point. The people on the opposite end of the spectrum are used to ignoring these stories by saying they are an agenda pushed by the “liberal media”. Outlets like ESPN are way too reliant on the billions of dollars involved in NFL broadcast contracts to report on it in any kind of transparent way, so when people in the public on both sides are like “eh” it becomes pretty easy to bury the story and move on to the next thing…

Yeah, numb...I long ago learned to assume the worst about the NFL. Been done with it for years. Not much else to comment, except, yep, that's what they would do.

In a generation of swine, the one-eyed pig is king.
-Hunter S. Thompson

But even for them this is too much.

Just revolting.

<--- Me when my head hits the pillow