Description: Both ESPN investigative reporters, the authors reveal how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, sought to cover up and deny mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage. This narrative moves between the NFL trenches, America's research labs and the boardrooms where the NFL went to war against science; it examines how the league used its power and resources to attack independent scientists and elevate its own flawed research.
Review Quotes: "Meticulously documented and endlessly chilling."--The New York Times
"The book should come with a warning label for football fans: Watching a game will never be the same after you read it. . . . [Fainaru-Wada and Fainaru] ask tough questions of the NFL without taking their conclu- sions too far."--NPR "Engaging and well written . . . an informative, intriguing and sobering book about power and control. I recommend it strongly."--Nate Jackson, The Washington Post"Journalistically bruising."--Peter King "Clear-eyed and devastating."--San Francisco Chronicle "League of Denial should be required reading in secondary schools for all athletes. Those of us outside the lines will be wiser, as well, for having invested just a few hours to read it."--Tim Cowlishaw, The Dallas Morning News