Is there a link between football players’ brain injuries and mental decline among players later in life? Evidence is mounting. Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, in Chicago, is pleased to see that the U.S. House of Representatives is holding hearings on this issue, at which former player Tiki Barber and family members of injured players have testified.

At the hearings, Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner, would not say whether he thought there was a link between football and cognitive decline among NFL players. However, he did say that the issue of brain injuries in football warranted federal scrutiny because “the NFL is a monopoly whose existence was legislatively sanctioned.” U.S. Representative Michael Quigley, of Illinois, said that although Congress is focusing mostly on NFL policies, “the norms of the NFL, for better or worse, become the norms of high school football players.”