SaintsBro

This is total propaganda -- why say this now, why didn't he speak out when the story first broke back in March, and what does his opinion have to do with anything. Gayle Sayers was a great player but he is one of those guys who the NFL has in their back pocket...he got hurt in an era when players were low paid, and when players who got hurt didn't get anything and the league knows he got screwed, but he's very popular, so the league has consistently funneled him money over the years through documentaries, NFL films, trotted him out at ceremonies, included him in paid autograph sessions, fly him places to toss a ceremonial coin toss, etc. To casual older fans (older white male demographic of a certain generation) he's like a poster boy for heartbreaking injury and the dangers of football, and the league knows that.

It's a ham-fisted attempt to get sympathy because their legal position is weak. It must be really weak for them to be resorting to this now.