That the NFL knew about the dangerous impact concussions have on players' brains long before publicly acknowledging the link doesn't sit well with Texans safety Ed Reed. "The business of football is shady," Reed told ESPN.com. "The business of football is very shady. The fact that they would withhold information is bad. The fact that our CBA would not want that information, the fact that our older players would take money instead of getting that information is bad. The business of football, NFL football, is shady. Now we can't get that information anymore? It's just swept under the rug? That's bad." A two-decades-long campaign to deny scientific research that connected brain damage to football is revealed in the book "League of Denial," written by ESPN investigative reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru. Source: ESPN DaBears22's Take: Well no crap Ed. The NFL is in the business of making money, everyone associated with the NFL is in the business of making money, off of you and every other player in the NFL.
shut up reed. sure, the league's practices are sometimes shady. anything with billions of dollars at stake will do that. however, to act like the players are innocent victims wrapped up in the shady league is laughable with players taking ped's all over the place and trying to keep from getting caught.
