In an earlier post, I mentioned the fact that the NFL has been doing all it can to deny the allegations that their players are beginning to suffer long-term effects from the concussions that are common on the playing field. Evidence has been steadily building in favor of the claim that the players are suffering from adverse health effects, but the organization didn’t want to accept that truth. I suppose it wouldn’t look very good for them.

However, the NFL could only deny the facts for so long. Their official spokesperson, Greg Aiello, stated in a phone interview that the NFL, in fact, agreed with the facts, and publicly announced their stance.

“It’s quite obvious from the medical research that’s been done that concussions can lead to long-term problems,” the league spokesman Greg Aiello said in a telephone interview. He was discussing how the league could donate $1 million or more to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University, whose discoveries of brain damage commonly associated with boxers in the brains of deceased football players were regularly discredited by the N.F.L.

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