From The Playing Field to the Courtroom
The family of the Late, Great Linebacker, Junior Seau filed suit in state Court in San Diego California against the National Football League and Riddell, the manufacturer of the helmet worn by NFL players. The theory being advanced in the suit is that the NFL had superior knowledge and information about the damage being done to the player’s brains by the repetitive, cumulative hits to the head. Seau was autopsied and found to have Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy as a result