Duerson's final letter, consisting mostly of personal comments that relatives declined to make public, did describe blurred vision and pain, Alicia Duerson said, "on the left side of his brain." The implication, by pledging his brain to research, was that his problems, and perhaps his suicide as well, stemmed from his football career. Running back, who served with Duerson on the panel that considers former players' disability claims. "It had to be.They acted as her hired cheerleaders in her song, chanting Madonna in the background. Camp claimed the gesture was premeditated and did not occur in rehearsals. (In the Madonna video, she points her fingers like a gun.) They asserted, got caught up in the moment.

The NFL takes in revenues of more than $9 billion a year, a figure that will rise when new TV contracts start in 2014. In addition to Dorsett, the plaintiffs include Super Bowlwinning quarterback Jim McMahon, who suffers from dementia; former running back