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The day before the National Football League announced last August that it would pay more than $675 million to thousands of retired players with traumatic brain injuries, Atlanta attorney Michael McGlamry and other members of the players’ legal steering committee were summoned to New York. There, McGlamry—a former college quarterback and team captain representing more than 500 retired ballplayers—learned that the NFL was announcing the following day that the case had been settled.
