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Published Feb 02 2012 by Cleveland Sports News: cleveland.com

Former NFL players are suing the league over concussions

Tony Dorsett says NFL owners use you up.

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The helmet-to-helmet shot knocked Tony Dorsett out cold in the second quarter of a 1984 Cowboys-Eagles game, the hardest hit he ever took during his Hall of Fame NFL career.

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"Yeah, I understand you paid me to do this, but still yet, I put my life on the line for you, I put my health on the line" Dorsett says...

Former NFL players are suing the league over concussions [Cleveland Sports News: cleveland.com - Feb 02 2012]

...Dorsett says. "And yet when the time comes, you turn your back on me? That's not right. That's not the American way."

Former NFL players are suing the league over concussions [Cleveland Sports News: cleveland.com - Feb 02 2012]

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