What to know about the congressional report on the NFL

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It looked good on paper, anyway: The NFL last year signed an agreement to fund a $16 million, seven-year study that aimed to find methods for detecting — in living patients — chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease found in dozens of deceased NFL players.

But the NFL broke the agreement after the league didn’t like the research group the U.S. government selected.

Editor’s PicksOTL: Report lambasts NFL for vast overreach

Congressional investigators have concluded that top NFL health officials waged an improper, behind-the-scenes campaign to influence a U.S. government research study on football and brain disease.

That’s one of the major findings in a congressional report released Monday. It concludes that top NFL health officials waged an improper, behind-the-scenes campaign to strip the award from Robert Stern, a respected researcher from Boston University who has criticized the league, and redirect the money to members of the NFL’s brain injury committee.

Five things we learned from the report:

Not-quite “unrestricted”: When the NFL donated $30 million to the National Institutes of Health for brain research in 2012, commissioner Roger Goodell called it an “unrestricted” gift. The congressional …

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