The NFL Was Wrong, but It’s Time to Move On

April 5, 2016   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

The national conversation about football and concussions has been going around in circles for years. Last week, it began going backward. 
The New York Times reported on March 24 that data collected between 1996 and 2001 by the NFL as part of a controversial concussion study was plagued by massive omissions. The data was doomed to be incomplete no matter what, since it came from an era when players still "got their bells rung" and concussions often appeared on official injury reports as "neck stingers" or "turf toe." But the Times learned that the NFL doubled down on its fudging by allegedly omitting injuries to low-profile players like Troy Aikman and Steve Young, apparently hoping no one would notice.
The Times then hedged on the newsworthiness/clickability of its findings by ladling hundreds of words into the article about a tenuous connection between the NFL and the tobacco lobby after explicitly stating that "the Times has found no direct evidence that the league to...

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