Shoe.

Dog and pony, nothing more. Slightly reduced penalties for show I'm betting. The guy, Tags, is still making a boatload off of the NFL these days

Tobias-Reiper

I don't think they would be any "slightly reduced" penalties. The whole affair will still hinge in pay for performance vs pay to injure, and the players aren't exactly asking for mercy, they are denying pay to injure. I think it's all-in for everyone involved.

And obviously 2 things can happen: Tagliabue sings the current company line and rules "pay to injure", then it's back to court. Or, it may very well be that Tagliabue will say "no evidence of pay to injure", which actually would benefit the NFL, especially after the re-airing of "smash for cash", and follow me here for a second: remember that smash for cash aired in 1996. It also happens that the ex-players suing the NFL, most of them played before Goodell was commissioner, and played during that time. So, the ex-players suing the NFL could argue that whatever this commissioner is doing today has no relevance to when they were lied to about brain injuries or when they were actually injured, which would've happened at a time when the league turned a blind eye to bounties.

'Cause the simple man pays the thrills, the bills and the pills that kill