Congress Not Happy With NFL

Following Tuesday's hearing on the practices of the NFL disability plan, the New York Times reports that some members of Congress are considering remedial action.

It's been a long time coming, but something must be done to protect players who are continually rejected for long term disability benefits despite clear proof that they sustained a traumatic brain injury while playing in the NFL that has rendered them permanently disabled.

Here's what the Times reports based upon interviews with House members:

"Whether Congress will ultimately consider action, or whether the hearing served merely as its public relations warning to the league and union to improve a disability system that the panel depicted as drawn-out and draconian, remained unclear one day after the hearing. But three members of the committee reasserted in telephone interviews yesterday that they would consider legislation should they not see improvements to the treatment of retired players, of whom 317 received disability payments of about $63,000 apiece last year."

According to the chairperson of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law,  Linda T. Sanchez,  further hearings are likely and legislative action is imminent unless the league become more responsive and fairer to its disabled players.

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