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...these resolutions arrive surprisingly late, as the league has already begun to take responsibility for the declining health of its players. When Mackey’s wife, Sylvia, wrote last May to then-NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue about the financial burden that can result from the rapid decline of retired players’ health, the league and the NFL Players Association responded by creating the “Number 88 Plan.” Named after John Mackey’s jersey number, the plan will pay up to $88,000 for each former player’s treatment...
...This plan is a noteworthy step on the part of the NFL to help remedy the consequences of an NFL career, but it appears that the league neither has been nor is being nearly as proactive with regard to encouraging and protecting the safety of players on the field...
...recent resignation and replacement of Pellman could mark a turning point in the league’s attitudes toward safety and a movement toward Guskiewicz’s sentiments. However, the committee refuses to consider any connection between professional-level NFL research and high school or collegiate research such as Guskiewicz’s. Many fear that if the NFL’s attitudes toward safety do not change, the reverberations will be felt not just by professional football players, but by athletes of every sport and level...
...issue of safety, brain injury, and athletics is in the spotlight, much due to action by the families of NFL veterans and the NFL’s timely response. The NFL finds itself in the powerful position to set an example that can improve the quality of life of many a future athlete. Many insist that the game of football must fundamentally change to ensure safety, but to ask that much now is unrealistic and unnecessary. Possible initial policies as simple as requiring follow-up examinations after injury and sending players off the field long enough for thorough treatment...
...meantime, MTBI committee member and Baltimore Ravens team physician, Andrew Tucker, concedes that NFL teams do not follow a specific concussion treatment guideline. “You wait until symptoms resolve before a player returns to play. We’re the beneficiary of an elite-level athlete who seems to recover quicker...