NFL
Concussions
Discussed in
UN, Sponsored
by Malawi, No
Q&A - Why?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 29 --
Four days
before the
National
Football
League's Super
Bowl XLVIII is
played in the
New Jersey
Meadowlands, a
meeting about
concussions is
being held in
the UN
featuring
current
and former NFL
players.
Without much
explanation,
it is being
sponsored by
Malawi; a
co-sponsor is
Dominion
Capital, which
has
invested in
bio-medical
companies
involved in
concussions.
Inner
City Press,
while covering
the UN
Security
Council
meeting about
War
and Its
Lesson,
obtained an
"Internal Use
Only"
technical
agenda, which
lists among
the
participants
former New
York tight end
Jeffrey
Shockey and
current New
York Giant
safety Antrel
Rolle. (And
see below.)
Skipping
out
on the
Security
Council debate
for a moment,
in the
Trusteeship
Council
Chamber was
NFL Network
correspondent
Andrea Kremer,
asking
her own
questions
about the NFL
Concussion
Litigation
(the program
said, "No
Q&A.")
Some players
are angry they
will not be
helped; some
have no
insurance.
Inner City
Press tweeted
photo here.
In the next
panel, a
sports trainer
said that
younger child
were happiest
in wrestling
because they
were not
competing. A
mother from
Concord,
Massachusetts
recounted
having to
withdraw one
of her
triplets from
football. It
was interesting.
But one
wondered:
why was this
in the UN? Why
did Malawi
sponsor it?
Why was
it in the UN
Media Alert,
with its "No
Q&A" and
financial firm
sponsorship?
The event
took,
apparently for
the whole
day, the UN
Delegates'
Dining Room,
for which
Aramark
receives the
funds. What's
the UN's role
in this?
Also
listed among
participants
in the "for
internal use
only"
technical
agenda were
Ben Urecht,
Clinton
Portis,
current
Carolina
Panthers
cornerback
Drayton
Florence, Hank
Baskett,
Jermichael
Finley,
Jermaine
Wiggins,
Sidney Rice,
Steve
Weatherford
and Darrell
Reid; boxer
Andre Berto
and MLS player
Tony Sanneh.
His father,
research
finds, came
from Gambia.
What was the
Malawi
connection,
then? Watch
this site.
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