Support NFL Veterans

The NFL entertains millions of people around the world every week during the fall season with its particular brand of football. Part of what makes the game attractive to so many people — its speed and physicality — also has a number of violent outcomes. Muscles, bones and nervous systems are routinely injured, sometimes beyond repair.

And while many professional football players sign lucrative, multi-million dollar contracts, these are almost exclusively non-guaranteed deals. Players can be cast aside by a team at any moment. Too often, these athletes are physically scarred for life but unable to get the financial assistance in the form of benefits and pensions that they deserve.

The purpose of this group is to put pressure on the stakeholders of the NFL — the league, the team owners, the players’ union, the television networks and the corporate sponsors — to not allow rational business interests to cause the irrational human sacrifice of those former athletes who entertained for so many years.

We will begin to do this by enacting a ONE-DAY television boycott of the NFL games scheduled to be broadcast by FOX, CBS and NBC on Sunday, December 16.

Do NOT watch NFL games on television for ONE DAY. Force the networks and corporate sponsors to ask hard questions. It is a small gesture to potentially help those scarred from football battles over the years.

We have been inspired by the Men’s Journal article titled “Casualties of the NFL” by Paul Solotaroff.

PLEASE READ HIS ARTICLE HERE:

http://www.mensjournal.com/feature/M162/M162_CasualtiesoftheNFL.html

We are not anti-football, but pro-justice for those who have been cast aside by the game. Please invite and convince as many of your friends as possible to join this boycott and seek justice.