• Kirp123@lemmy.world
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    The NFL spent years trying to deny and cover up any link that emerged connecting head injuries sustained while playing football with long-term brain disorders. The NFL Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) Committee, first formed in 1994, reported in December 1999 that the number of head injuries had remained “remarkably the same over the course of four years.” The committee went a step further in 2004 when it suggested in an article published in Neurosurgery that “NFL players have evolved to a state where their brains are less susceptible to injury.”

    The NFL has known this shit for close to 30 years now.