"Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel"
HBO Real Sports takes a look at the status of the biggest legal settlement in sports history, the NFL’s deal with thousands of former players to compensate them for their brain trauma. When it was struck in 2013, the deal was reportedly worth almost a billion dollars, a godsend for concussed former players, many of whom were in desperate need of money and didn’t have time to wait. Yet today, five years later, the vast majority of those former players in need are still waiting. Sadly, about 90 percent of those who have filed claims for league money haven’t been paid. Wayne Gordon, PhD, professor and vice chair of rehabilitation medicine and chief of rehabilitation psychology and neuropsychology at The Mount Sinai Hospital, is one of the top neuropsychologists in the country and has evaluated players for the settlement. He said many former players suffer from behavioral problems but have no way to get money. “They could be agitated, emotionally dysregulated, blowing up at family members for no apparent reason or severely depressed,” Dr. Gordon said.
- Wayne Gordon, PhD, Jack Nash Professor, Vice Chair, Rehabilitation Medicine, Associate Professor, Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Chief, Rehabilitation Psychology, Neuropsychology, The Mount Sinai Hospital
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