The Declining Integrity of Professional Sports

Here now are 84 pages of 33 articles written in the last 3 weeks that confirm the information I havewholesale mlb jerseys been sending you (congress, etc) the press and others for the past eight months about retired and disabled players issues. The writers who wrote these articles are not saying “Bernie Parrish says…”, they are expressing their own strong opinions about the legal, medical, and moral abuses being inflicted on the retired NFL players because NFL owners and management and the players union are treated as a privileged class, above the law, in fact anti-trust exempt without being granted that exemption by congress. They are granted a free pass by a portion of the media who allow them to answer almost every question with “Gee Whilligers…We just became aware of that problem, but we are working hard to study it and fix it. Would you like to buy a piece of this bridge it connects Brooklyn and…” Like they just became aware that football players suffer frequent concussions that cause other related problems and every other problem they are causing and covering up. 

At the moment they are conducting a cover up campaign to hide a totally unqualified Dr. Elliotmlb baseball jerseys Pellman who was exposed by the NY Times. The NFL’s Dr. Pellman who was appointed by Tagliabue to head the NFL’s Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee (MTBI) hired Dr. William Barr. The NY Times revealed that Dr. Pellman is a rheumatologist with a degree from Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara in Mexico not from SUNY Stony Brook as his resume claimed. Pellman has no credentials to head a committee on brain injuries. 

Tagliabue was obviously looking for another NFL “yes” man, not some one with medical expertise http://www.mlbnfljerseyssupply.comon brain injuries, when he appointed Dr. Pellman the head of his NFL Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee in 1994. Forsaking his union membership’s health and safety Upshaw has covered for Pellman and Tagliabue/Goodell ever since. “I’m making too much money. I can’t rock the boat.” Gene Upshaw after the failure of an NFL Health insurance plan.

After a short period Dr. William Barr a real brain injury expert from NYU Medical School, [url=http://www.mlbnfljerseyssupply.com]www.mlbnfljerseyssupply.com[/url]refused to go along with the NFL’s act and blew the whistle on the self serving and dangerous information being published (13 studies since 1994) on concussions by the NFL under Dr. Pellman. Dr. Barr and Brain Injury attorney Michael V. Kaplen Chairman of Brain Injury Association of NY State, both dispute Dr. Pellman’s and the NFL’s contentions on concussions and brain injuries and recently spoke up in the media to try to bring about Congressional Hearings to protect NFL players and to try to prevent the dangerous NFL misinformation about concussions from trickling down to college, high school, and youth programs. 

Unbelievably Dr. Pellman remains today the NFL’s expert on concussions and brain injuries in spite of his lack of training and credentials and the problems with his inaccurate resume being made public by the NY Times. Commissioner Tagliabue and his successor Roger Goodell and NFLPA Executive Director Gene Upshaw know all about Dr. Pellman’s credibility and lack of medical expertise problems and the threat he poses to the health of NFL, college, high school, and the youth football players of the nation and incredibly they have done nothing about it. Instead they have ordered Pellman not to talk to the media and are trying to hide him today. 

There is an obvious reason that Upshaw’s NFLPA and the Player Retirement Plan spend over $5,000,000 a year on legal fees almost exclusively to defeat the best interests of retired and retired disabled players and only $23,400 on Dr. Thom Mayer to advise the NFLPA on player’s medical issues.

This is just one example of how the NFL and NFLPA operate in collusion and why the active and retired NFL players need help from Congress and the courts and perhaps law enforcement.
See article number 32 page 79, for the latest example of NFL’s abusive disability system built and operated by the Groom Law Group Tagliabue/Goodell and Gene Upshaw for the NFL owners.