NFL’s Climate of Distrust Will Undermine Cam Newton Probe No Matter the Result

September 13, 2016   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

Maybe the NFL should hire Morgan Freeman to make all of its official announcements.
Freeman would make the league sound more authoritative. More enlightened. More...trustworthy. 
Read the beginning of the official statement by NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy about the Cam Newton concussion protocol investigation in what you imagine is the typical NFL headquarters voice (probably a cross between Roger Goodell's buttery evasiveness and the nasal-voiced lawyer from The Simpsons):
The NFL is committed to the proper application of the Concussion Protocol. In order to ensure that it is being uniformly applied across all 32 NFL teams, we have decided to initiate a review of the medical team's response to the Cam Newton tackle, under the procedure set forth by the collective bargaining agreement.
Newton, you will recall, absorbed multiple blows to the head at the hands of the Broncos defense in the Thursday night season opener. The worst came with 42 s...

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