Cool Link OT: Flores lawsuit against NFL allowed with echoes back to Deflategate (LINK)

[mike_usagisan]

But now they only have 8 padded practices a year!

The commish as arbitrator affects such a tiny percentage of the players, but fewer practices affects them all. I can see why this was of more interest to the players.

 

[maust]

I'd be bummed if I was an NFL player.

OTOH you could console yourself with the paychecks. I doubt you'd be bummed when the money truck was backing up to your door. While it's true money can't buy you happiness, it can get you a big enough boat to allow you to tie up right alongside it...which is nice
It's only a sport to us my friend, to everyone involved in pro sports it's a business

 

[Froob]

I hope Flores goes for the win and doesn’t settle

 

[FreeTedWilliams]

The NFL is going to want to avoid the discovery process. They will settle.

 

[TommyD4207]

This is one thing I just can't wrap my head around. I know it was high school 25+ years ago but our whole team went to the University of Delaware for a week over the summer and had 3 padded practices a day. With crazy conditioning running after each one. I still shudder Everytime I hear green bay cuz that's what we called the worst one. (4) Of each distance 100 yards, then 90, then 80 so on and so forth to 10 yards where we would do as many as the coach felt we needed. Or monkey rolls where the entire team was jogging in a line and the last guy had to sprint to the front. Actually I can still hear a rb I wasn't super close to, behind me saying "c'mon man you can do it, keep it up" when I was starting to flag towards the end. Monsters were bad too, by class seniors first, ran sideline to sideline (50 yards) there, back, there, back so 200 yards total. I LOVED padded practices, hitting people was the best and I would give almost anything to go back to spending 3 days every week in pads after school. I'm sure as professional athletes they don't need the team conditioning the way we did and they do have a higher risk of injury but they've gone too far the other way IMO. I'd be bummed if I was an NFL player.

You wonder why nobody can block or tackle anymore. It's because they don't wear pads in practice. It also leads to more injuries, but the NFL would never dare put that out there.

You don't get good at getting hit if you never get hit.