The complaint in Michael Myers v. National Football Leagu e , filed Feb. 24 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, reads more like a detailed magazine article than a personal-injury suit. There’s a good reason for that, explains the attorney who filed the complaint.

Former NFL lineman Michael Myers, who played for the Dallas Cowboys for six seasons before retiring in 2007, alleges the league did not do enough to warn him of the permanent damage from which he now suffers as the result of “devastating head injuries” from playing football.