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Originally Posted by ksabet
I know this doesn't fit here but I've had a question for a while and don't know anyone who can answer it from a legal perspective.
I am all for big hits in football, home plate crashes in baseball, fights in hockey and hopefully basketball just dying.
It seems that in most leagues the injury issues and fear of legal responsibility has
caused rules to be put in place that take away from the game and mater them down.
My question is pretty simple. Why can't that individual leagues have players sign waivers saying they will never sue the leagues for long term injuries and in order to have the privilege of playing and making millions you have to sign the waiver?
I am sure there is probably a really simple answer, so I apologize if this is relatively elementary.
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Simple answer, lawyers(some) are greedy and will sue anybody for any reason as long as they think they can get paid. Players know/knew the consequences no matter what anybody says and have the entire time. They get paid insane amounts of $ and most spend it as fast or faster than they get it and are trying anything they can to get some free $. Yes it is 100% the players fault and anybody that says different is either a lawyer or a liar. This has been in the news for 40 years and I get as good laugh how they always make it sound like it is a new problem that they did not know about before.
