Winston slams NFL over congressional report

CINCINNATI -- NFLPA president and Cincinnati Bengals offensive tackle Eric Winston slammed the NFL this week, charging that allegations in a recent congressional report on the way the NFL improperly handled its recent concussion study was "a symptom" and "microcosm" of the way the league treated its players.

The congressional report, which was released Monday and highlighted in an ESPN "Outside the Lines" report the same day, concluded that at least a half-dozen top NFL health officials waged an improper, behind-the-scenes campaign last year to influence a major U.S. government research study on football and brain disease. The 91-page report highlighted ways the NFL pressured the National…