OPINION | Change starts with us. And after Monday night, there should be no going back to NFL business as usual. Enough is enough.
, the NFL is still falling short in its handling of players’ potential concussions and the severity of chronic traumatic encephalopathy . CTE is a degenerative brain disease that a neuropathologistbrains examined of NFL players. Even after several years of reporting, the league continues to lack updated tools to help track such injuries and still depends on players mostly to report them on their own.
“No teams wanted to sign a player—even one as talented as Kaepernick—whom they saw as controversial, and, therefore, bad for business,” confessed former NFL exec Joe Lockhart in aThat situation was when I stopped being a fan of the NFL. For a powerful institution to instantly railroad the career of a Black person for practicing free speech—especially for an act that was in defense of their community’s call for justice—showed me how the NFL truly felt about diversity when it wasn’t profitable.
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