NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith also weighed in, tweeting that this was “another example of a league that is out of control.”
The damning report by ESPN’s Outside the Lines said at last six NFL health officials “waged an improper, behind-the-scenes campaign” to influence the government research study on football and brain disease.
The NFL signed an agreement to contribute $16 million to the study, which would have covered almost all of it, but broke the contract when its campaign to remove Robert Stern as director of the study.
By backing out of the agreement, the NFL forced the study to be funded by taxpayer dollars.
George Atallah, the assistant executive director of external affairs for the NFLPA, said in a tweet “Now people understand why we chose to keep our distance from the NFL when it came to scientific research.”
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