The tertiary stakeholder, with a retrospective and progressive outlook on the situation, are the medical evolutionists and technological innovators, which can be grouped together. Corporations such as Riddell and STAR are now pitted in a race for the coveted prize that can save a billion-dollar industry and they will consequentially be compensated in respect to the helpfulness of their innovation - the concussion-proof helmet. Fringe doctors, researchers, and leading medical evolutionists which may play a complementary role to this newfound desire for technological innovation are also an important stakeholder. Unlike the other stakeholders, this classification of involved parties are not dependent on the others and are operating on an independent basis. The following emotional and credible quotes sum up the roles of these stakeholders in this concussion crisis:
"I wish I never met Mike Webster. CTE has driven me into the politics of science, the politics of the NFL. You can't go against the NFL. They will squash you." - Dr. Bennet Omalu
"The way football is being played currently, that I have seen, it's dangerous. It's dangerous and it could impact their long-term mental health. You only get one brain." - Dr. Ann McKee
"The NFL very directly worker, not only to get the brain to NIH, but in this case, to keep it away from Omalu's group or McKee's group by speaking badly about them" - Mark Fainaru-Wada
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