This is true to a point but some forget that the league won one of those cases when the judge ruled even though there are risks, players accept those risks when they sign their contracts. He said it's just like the deep sea commercial fishermen that have a very dangerous job and they accept the risks when they decide to work on those ships. They can't stop all accidents or deaths with the fishermen unless they make commercial fishing illegal.
If the league continues it's path of drastically changing the game, as I said before they will change it right into bankruptcy. Here's a couple of good examples. There was a time when the Pro Bowl was mostly played like regular a season game. The only difference was the defense could only send a single LB to blitz and only on 3rd down. Then the Pro Bowl was watched by most, now the viewership is so so low there's talk of doing away with the actual game and do the second example. That is there used to be a off season competition where NFL players competed in different events like the 100 yard dash, a agility course, passing and weight lifting. This was watched for a couple of seasons but because these events were done in late winter and early spring but not aired until the summer for 4 weekends , the outcomes started to get leaked out and people decide being summer and knowing who won what there were things they wanted to do outside and the viewership drop dramatically and there went the NFL competition.
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