Another ImPACT Case Shows Where Litigation Is Going to Cripple the Football System. (Hint: It Won’t Be at the NFL Level.)
November 1, 2012New Wrestler Death: Brad Armstrong, 51
November 1, 2012
(1/6) Sen. Richard Blumenthal campaigning hard against Linda McMahon, whom he defeated in 2010 and who is now running against Chris Murphy.
(2/6) Blumenthal says the Republican McMahon’s vote would cancel out his own Democratic one in the upper body of Congress.
(3/6) Would McMahon’s election also cancel out Blumenthal’s hard work on traumatic brain injury and independent contractor reform?
(4/6) Oh I forgot — Blumenthal hasn’t done anything about concussions. Unless you count joining the Commerce Committee’s success …
(5/6) … in firewalling the discussion at scapegoating a helmet company — letting $10-billion-a-year NFL off the hook for public health.
(6/6) Blumenthal also co-signed proposed federal bill on independent contractor abuse. But CT Labor Dept audit of McMahon’s WWE was a dud.