Jim Irsay Comments on NFL Player Health, Safety Issues

March 28, 2016   ·   Joseph Zucker   ·   Jump to comments

Less than a week after Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones called linking football with neurodegenerative diseases "absurd," per SportsBusiness Journal's Daniel Kaplan, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay opened himself up for criticism while discussing the growing concern regarding player safety in the NFL.
Irsay granted an interview to SportsBusiness Journal at the league's annual owners meeting and discussed the issue of concussions:
Look at it: When you get into Olympic bobsledding—I could sit down and name a dozen different sports—it has always been a known factor that you know you are going in there and you are taking a risk.
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I believe this: that the game has always been a risk, you know, and the way certain people are. Look at it. You take an aspirin, I take an aspirin, it might give you extreme side effects of illness and your body … may reject it, where I would be fine. So there is so much we don’t know.
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