"It's great because one of the things you have to transition to in the NFL is making all new friends on the team and getting to know people," Okafor said. "But I get to come in with a guy that I played two years with and was already a mentor of mine. It's a perfect situation.".Your comments: Utter nonsense. The fans wind up paying for this, of course, and nobody really gets anything but the lawyers. So here we have a bunch of guys, coddled practically from birth as athletes, who have recieved free educations, enormous salaries, the best of everything, and who now claim that they did not know the game was dangerous? And we are going to give them and their lawyers a pile of money on top of what they already get? What, do we now go to all the regaular guys, miners, the ironworkers, even the meat packers, and pay them a fortune now that we have found their jobs could be dangerous? Of course not.

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