Dikta Changing his Tune?

While Former NFL player and coach Mike Ditka has become one of the most vocal and ardent voices for players’ rights, espeicially in regards to former players who are now retired and dealing with long standing injuries from their playing days.  This report claims that there may be some hyprocrisy to Ditka’s stance.  Some of his former players have gone on record as saying that Ditka was much less sympathetic about player injuries back in the day.
This article is extremely interesting and worth a read.  It showcases many of the underlying issues in what seems at first glance to be a very simple case of the Big Bad NFL turning its back on its former players.  Factually speaking, this is a much deeper issue, one in which there are coaches who feel pressured to win, players who feel pressured to not only perform, but to never be perceived as weak.  The NFL must certainly shoulder a great deal of the blame for their treatment of former players, but factually speaking, this is a very complex issue with a lot of layers.

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