Former Atlanta Falcons running back Jamal Anderson and linebacker Jessie Tuggle, who helped take the “Dirty Birds” to Super Bowl XXXIII, are among 114 professional football players and their wives who sued the National Football League on Thursday as part of expanding national litigation centered around traumatic brain injuries.
The suit, filed in the Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta, is expected to be transferred to U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, where it will become part of multi-district litigation that includes suits filed on behalf of more than 1,500 current and former football players. All claim that for years the NFL concealed evidence linking concussions that players sustained during games to permanent brain damage.
