A few years ago, critics accused the NFL of racism, inadequate player safety, and lax punishments for players accused of domestic violence. But thanks to savvy PR, more people are buying game tickets, and Rihanna's headlining the Super Bowl on Sunday.
a new lawsuit alleging that the league steers disability claims toward doctors financially incentivized to deny them. to consider lifetime healthcare coverage for former players, offering coverage only through their first five years of retirement, and agreed to provide pensions only for those who play at least three seasons.
Serious questions proliferated: Did football draw people prone to violent behavior or was the league an incubator for it, rewarding young men for brutality that served them well on the field but caused harm off it? Was the rash of violence caused by early stages of the brain damage researchers were finding in nearly every former player they studied? Was America funneling waves upon waves of ambitious and athletic boys into a sport that was ruining their...
The potential for redemption offered an ethical defense to teams looking to draft players who’d been convicted of domestic violence during college. Tyreke Hill, a speedy wide receiver drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs after pleading guilty to choking his girlfriend, and Joe Mixon, a powerful running back drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals after a video showed him punching a woman in the face, both helped push their respective team to the Super Bowl within five years of entering the NFL.
That was the backdrop when he started protesting police brutality in August 2016, two years after an officer in Ferguson, Missouri, killed Michael Brown.
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