CBS Sports: NFL, NFLPA announce largest youth helmet replacement program ever - ProFootball Weekly: NFLPA names DePaso general counsel - NBC Sports: Ricky Williams doesn’t believe there’s a link between concussions and brain damage - We've posted the entire 896-page NIOHS NFL Players Study - just CLICK HERE to read. - FOX sports: Former Giants WR Robinson dies at 50 - IT'S OFFICIAL: George Martin resigns from NFL Alumni - FOXsports: Junior Seau, 43, found dead in apparent suicide - Washington Post: Ray Easterling, former NFL player who sued league over concussion treatment, dies at 62

Most of our readers know by now that Dave’s been in this fight for over 25 years with his Union, the NFLPA, to get justice for himself and his retired brothers. There’s just so much material to go through that the sheer volume can sometimes get overwhelming. The worst part is that it seems almost everything you look at is just another bad chapter in a never-ending novel on the abuse that’s been heaped on the majority of retired players for decades. (We wrote about this in earlier posts – click HERE and HERE and HERE.) After a while, it’s easy to get numb and to start overlooking stuff that’s been right under your nose all along.

Buried in Paperwork

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