Tracy Scroggins (59) in 1993.
Former Detroit Lions player Tracy Scroggins filed a federal lawsuit against the NFL on Monday, alleging the league deliberately concealed the long-term effects of repeated head trauma.
The lawsuit, filed in Florida, cites the New York Times which reported that as many as 100 concussions were left out of a peer-reviewed report the NFL has touted for years.
The league issued an extensive reply to the article shortly after it was published, calling the report “false innuendo and sheer speculation” based on a handful of anecdotal references that were “twisted and contorted out of context.