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One of the lawyers representing Karras and more than 500 other former players in their cases against the NFL, Craig Mitnick, said: "The NFL not only misled players, and not only was negligent but, we believe, deliberately withheld information that could have protected these former players, and ... could have changed the way their lives were lived."
Mitnick declined to make Karras available for an interview.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello declined to comment Thursday. In the past, the NFL has said it did not intentionally seek to mislead players and has taken action to better protect players and to advance the science of concussion management and treatment.
"Here's the thing: The bigger picture is what interests me and Alex. There are millions of people with dementia or Alzheimer's. The football players are maybe the worst cases, because they have had multiple concussions and brain stem injuries. But this is a public-health issue. This is the beginning of a long, long discussion," said Clark, who married Karras in 1980. "The football players and their spouses -- all of us -- are shaking it up a bit, saying, `Hey, you have to pay attention to this.'"
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