https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/02/the-most-plausible-route-to-the-death-of-football/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:01:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/02/the-most-plausible-route-to-the-death-of-football/comment-page-1/#comment-142121 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:04:07 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=27543#comment-142121 Actually, liability suits messing with professional Football in the United States may be the most plausible route to tort reform.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/02/the-most-plausible-route-to-the-death-of-football/comment-page-1/#comment-142114 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:13:40 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=27543#comment-142114 Or, let the insanity known as Title IX take over high-school sports.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/02/the-most-plausible-route-to-the-death-of-football/comment-page-1/#comment-142076 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:07:47 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=27543#comment-142076 On top of that, if this somehow gets through, how long before players from the NBA, NHL, MLB, soccer, auto racing, and wrestling (both amateur and WWE/TNA style)–along with who knows how many other sports–would haul the leagues (and others) in under the same premise?

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/02/the-most-plausible-route-to-the-death-of-football/comment-page-1/#comment-142063 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:39:35 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=27543#comment-142063 Other than through a transparently results-oriented and football-hostile judge, how would such a suit get past an assumption of the risk defense? Football is a dangerous sport and everyone knows it. Is it even possible for a plaintiff to establish that he (or his family) understood that a football helmet would prevent all concussions? They plainly do not do so, have never have done so, and probably never will do so.

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