According to the lawsuit, Ferrier had previously purchased antique flour sacks from Guida. On Nov. 26, 2016, Ferrier confronted the antiques dealer about an early 1900s sack from the Lucky Flour Company that had a swastika incorporated into its label, the suit states. It was on display behind the storeâs sales counter.
The admission took all of two words. It came when Jeff Miller, the NFLâs senior vice president for health and safety policy, was asked by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) in a Capitol Hill round-table discussion whether there was a link between football and diseases like chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
The NFL and the NFL Players Association recently paid for a study on CTE. The conclusions were released on Tuesday, and while there is the usual amount of research language to sort through, one of the big takeaways is that the types of concussions suffered by linemen are more likely to produce CTE than those suffered by skill position players.