Tyler Sash special airing Sunday on ESPN's Outside the Lines
- Thread starter Blair Sanderson
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On a side note.
IF you haven't seen the movie concussion - it's a must for football fans.
Here's the full piece on Tyler that aired Sunday morning. Just heartbreaking.
I will see it at some point, and have stayed in tune with all the discussion about concussions in sports and particularly football.......but it will, in no way, shape, or form change my regard for the sport.
I will still watch it, enjoy it, support it, and hopefully one day if I have kids they'll get the opportunity to play as well.
It's amazing the amount of brain damage he had. I think the one of the worst parts of this whole thing is that a player who is injured and cut by a team should bare minimum get the needed medical attention paid for by that team outside of a medical settlement.
I thought the report said that the Giants paid an injury settlement of the equivalent of two game checks for Sash. I know that injury settlements are common in training camp. The other difficult part of your proposal is how do you quantify what the medical cost are and will be in the future and how much of those costs were the result of his time with the Giants. I am not anti-Sash in any way but this is a difficult topic on the responsibility of the team. Later Josh Cribbs explained how he fooled the testers and looked at the scoreboard to answer a concussion question. Does he bear some responsibility? Does the U of I bear responsibility for concussions Sash got there? That is one of the reasons I am sure that universities do not want athletes to be considered employees.
