I’m the Wife of a Former N.F.L. Player. Football Destroyed His Mind

Re:I’m the Wife of a Former N.F.L. Player. Football Destroye... by w0m on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:39PM (#16294024)

This is one of the key points to me - NFL actively hid the fact from their own fans and players for years. That should have been a much bigger deal I think, criminal negligence.

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Re:I’m the Wife of a Former N.F.L. Player. Football Destroye... by unclebucknasty on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:55PM (#16294140)

>should have been a much bigger deal

Yeah, and it's a pattern we've seen before (e.g. Big Tobacco).

I think it's a playbook. They string out the lies over a long period, then let the suspicion trickle out slowly. So, there are moments of muted outrage along the way, but by the time the full story comes out the pressure build-up has already been relieved. Beyond that, the finally-admitted truth is something we already knew for so long that our outrage has waned.

Basically, a PSYOP.

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Re:I’m the Wife of a Former N.F.L. Player. Football Destroye... by gameswithgo on Friday February 02, 2018 @04:17PM (#16294258)

>Yeah, and it's a pattern we've seen before (e.g. Big Tobacco)

And fossil fuel

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