Jahvid Best suing NFL over concussions

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...t-lions-rb-jahvid-best-suing-nfl-helmet-maker
 

The civil lawsuit can only seek monetary damages and at this point, Best's attorney, Bret Schnitzer, said he did not have a specific monetary damage being sought.
"The purpose behind the lawsuit, there's a number of requests of release in the lawsuit," Schnitzer said. "One of them is to set up a medical fund for Mr. Best in order to deal with future medical conditions out of this concussion syndrome.
"As I am sure you are probably aware through various media and the 'Frontline' program and so on, the brain injuries with concussion syndrome does not necessarily manifest itself completely immediately, as you can see from the other cases. Sometimes it is 10, 20 years where the brain injury process takes to develop and it's not necessarily going to show itself in a 24-, 25-year-old football player to the extent that it might 10, 15, 20 years down the road.
"So one of the goals of the litigation is to protect Mr. Best down the road in terms of his medical condition and problems that he may have in the future."
 

 
What do you guys think? I feel bad for the guy, but the lawsuit might be bullshit IMO. I mean, he knew what he was getting into. Just feel bad he has no job now
 

 

[youngguru]

That's pretty much equivalent to suing your office job because they gave you too much stress...or your labor job because they gave you back problems

 

[Pugz]

its not like he wasn't cleared and we still played him. we handled the situation the correct way, imo

 

[footballplaya52]

he chose to keep playing after the first few. cant act like oh i didn't know concussions were bad.

 

[elcheato]

That's pretty much equivalent to suing your office job because they gave you too much stress...or your labor job because they gave you back problems

Most labor jobs have you in a union, and you can collect workers comp from injury. Not sure how it works for the NFL. I'm assuming if he can't play because of his head trauma, he doesn't get any compensation. Could be wrong

 

[footballplaya52]

im all for compensating players when they retire and such, but suing riddell probably isnt gonna get him anywhere

 

[Pugz]

unions arent the only way to get workman's comp. if you have existing injuries it's void anyways.

 

[elcheato]

He's going to have a tougher case to win with the new safety precautions imposed, but he did enter the league before the craze began, so I think he'll get a settlement

 

[footballplaya52]

but it says he wants his own medical fund, kinda selfish no?

 

[youngguru]

Most labor jobs have you in a union, and you can collect workers comp from injury. Not sure how it works for the NFL. I'm assuming if he can't play because of his head trauma, he doesn't get any compensation. Could be wrong

 
Most, but not all. And plus the NFL has a union... 

 

[RipCity32]

I could've sworn he just got a coaching job with us.

 

[Hurricane Season]

He got a coaching job with Cal.

 

[RipCity32]

Ahhh. Must've read it wrong.

 

[WHO-DEY-BENGALS_18]

Yeah, Cal it is

 

[Steez]

Fucking sick of these guys whining about this shit after they clearly knew what they were getting themselves into. Fucking pisses me right off.
 
Don't play the goddamn game if you're gonna cry about the aftermath. Bitches.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Unbelievable. Its like being a boxer and suing the ref for letting the other guy break your nose.

 

[Lake Louise]

It's unfortunate what happened to him, but he wasn't in a situation where he was being forced to play, after his concussions. The proper precautions were made with him, and he's more just frustrated that he can't play again.