Former Players Sue NFL Over Painkiller Use  A group of 12 former
players brought the latest concussion-related lawsuit against
the NFL this week, this one concerning the league's
administration of the painkiller Toradol. As with the other
half-dozen or so suits that former players have filed against
the league in recent months, the players allege that the NFL did
not do enough to protect them from concussions they suffered
during their careers.  The group—which includes Joe Horn
(pictured above with the Saints), Matt Joyce, and Jerome
Pathon—accuse the league of negligence, fraud, fraudulent
concealment, negligent misrepresentation and conspiracy. Their
suit is unique in that it implicates the way in which the NFL
and its teams distributed Toradol, which the players say
exacerbated the plaintiffs' "risk of injury." Practically,
Toradol is used to reduce inflammation and body pain. But the
suit alleges that teams (and, in effect, their players) used the
drug to "mask pain," which they claim only worsened long-