Jeff Hostetler, Karl Mecklenburg, and Dome Patrol Members Rickey Jackson and Vaughan Johnson Among Latest to Sue NFL
The news out of New Orleans continues to roll in. The penalties and focus on the Saints’ bounty system is linked to the lawsuits that the NFL is facing from over a thousand former players over head injuries. Now, two members of the most famous Saints’ unit have joined in yet another suit as named plaintiffs. Rickey Jackson, recently inducted in the Hall of Fame, and Vaughan Johnson were both members of the feared Dome Patrol. That case was filed in the Eastern District of Louisiana as a class action, and also includes former Chiefs safety Gary Barbaro as another named plaintiff.
Separately, another suit has been filed in the Pennsylvania, with Jeff Hostetler as the lead plaintiff. That lawsuit has 60 plaintiffs, including former Broncos Karl Mecklenburg and Dennis Smith, former Raiders punter Jeff Gossett, and Dexter Jackson.
Previously: Breaking Down the NFL Head Injury Litigation Situation
[h/t: nflconcussionlitigation, photo via US Presswire]
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April 24th, 2012 at 12:03 PM
I wonder if I could sue the NFL after the ’98 Vikings/Falcons game. I lost a lot of brain cells that night due to mental anguish and the realization that I root for a team that will never win the big game.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:05 PM
i loved all these players back in the day. hoss’ mustache is legend.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:08 PM
How did I never know there was the moniker “Dome Patrol” — that’s incredible
April 24th, 2012 at 12:08 PM
Mecklenburg and Smith were fucking awesome back in the day.
/Broncos
April 24th, 2012 at 12:10 PM
Dome Patrol: baddest LB corps ever.
And now you know why the Ginger Hammer is so determined to excoriate the Saints over the bounty scandal (I refuse to use the -gate tag). It’s all about ensuring that his league doesn’t lose billions in federal court — even though, no matter what he does, that’s almost a certainty at this point.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:14 PM
Oh come on.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:14 PM
Awesome pic of Johnson. If I’m a WR, I’m not sure I correctly hear that cross play call with what looks like a DE patrolling that dome.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:14 PM
i am dumb- what are they suing over again? is it that the nfl never let them know concussions are bad, mmkay?
April 24th, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Gary Barbaro obviously considered Hoss a trendsetter and visionary.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
Reading these names makes me feel like my football card collection hired a lawyer.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
Can’t build a huge fucking Omelet with out cracking a few dozen eggs.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:17 PM
If the hysteria around concussions don’t bring back neck rolls, I don’t know what will.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:20 PM
I’m perusing the local deli menu, don’t know what to get for lunch. I always get a deluxe italian combo, so I’m looking for something different.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:24 PM
former Raiders punter Jeff Gosset
Oops.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:25 PM
“that’s almost a certainty at this point.”
Not absent some true smoking gun evidence that the NFL intentionally withheld solid evidence that concussions were going to lead to their injuries. If I were on the jury, they’d have a hard time winning my vote.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:25 PM
i prefer the neck shelf, as popularized by bryan cox.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:26 PM
It’s the new Big Tobacco.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:26 PM
french dip with extra surrender sauce.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:26 PM
I think they are upset that the NFL withheld knowledge of the extent of brain damage concussions caused. From Lisks previous post breaking this down:
April 24th, 2012 at 12:27 PM
I also need to stay clean. Won’t be good for business if I’m covered in Au Jus.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:28 PM
Thinking about roast beef, swiss, russian, lettuce, tomato, hot peppers.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:28 PM
I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:29 PM
i think hitler said the same thing.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:31 PM
Hey, I have Barbaro’s football card from 1982!
April 24th, 2012 at 12:31 PM
That’s why, despite what Ned Stark said, a leader should never do his own dirty work.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:34 PM
I would think Gary Barbaro has a case, what with his sporting career directly leading to his death following the Preakness.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:34 PM
there was another GOT quote that applied to hitler too…”there’s no cure for being a cunt.”
April 24th, 2012 at 12:36 PM
I thought he was euthanized in the shooting of Luck.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:37 PM
the Saints used to have their training camp in my hometown growing up, I have countless autographs of these guys.
I also have a buddy that I grew up with who’s odler sister banged Craig Ironhead Heyward one summer. RIP.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:38 PM
in half? i can imagine she was.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:42 PM
This – I had never heard that before today.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:44 PM
She could tell us whether or not “Ironhead” was actually a football nickname…
April 24th, 2012 at 1:20 PM
I’m perusing the local deli menu, don’t know what to get for lunch. I always get a deluxe italian combo, so I’m looking for something different.
i feel like your facebook friend
April 24th, 2012 at 1:21 PM
This – I had never heard that before today.
third’d
April 24th, 2012 at 1:21 PM
Well, I don’t have FB and I don’t have access to Twitter at work, so how else am I going to tell mass amounts of people the minutia of my daily life?
April 24th, 2012 at 1:22 PM
Hey, I have Barbaro’s football card from 1982!
now way, he was a horse!
April 24th, 2012 at 1:23 PM
so what did you get?
April 24th, 2012 at 1:23 PM
Check out the QB Records post.
April 24th, 2012 at 1:24 PM
How have this many football fans never heard of the Dome Patrol?
April 24th, 2012 at 1:25 PM
Hey, I have Barbaro’s football card from 1982!
now way, he was a horse!
wow am i lame…only two others mentioned the horse
April 24th, 2012 at 1:26 PM
two minute warning
How have this many football fans never heard of the Dome Patrol?
we were busy with good teams?
April 24th, 2012 at 1:39 PM
Because it kinda sucks as a nickname … sounds like some kind of balding-old-men club or something
April 24th, 2012 at 2:16 PM
Did these guys think that full-speed collisions were GOOD for one’s brain? I’m sick of these dudes whining now that they are out of money. I didn’t hear them complain when they were on top of the world,making more money per year than 98% of Americans. The NFL doesn’t owe them any more than my refrigerator owes me for my weight gain.