The NFL wanted a league-friendly researcher to conduct the study.
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The NFL "improperly attempted to influence" the use of funds for research on football and brain injury, a congressional investigation by the Democratic members of the House Committee on Energy and Commercy has found.
The results of the investigation, first published by ESPN's Outside The Lines, details the methods the NFL used to redirect funding away from Boston University, which criticized the league to an NFL-friendly team of researchers. The committee found the methods were in violation of policies at the National Institute of Health, which was funding the Boston University research.
The findings further the perception that the NFL has gone to great lengths to conceal the link between playing football and long-term brain injury — which did not go unnoticed by the league's own players.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers retweeted the ESPN report on the congressional findings without comment.
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