>> reporter: some medical professionals call the process outdated and oversimplified. >> it's imprecise, it's bad medicine, and it perpetuates false ideas about differences in intelligence by the color of skin. >> reporter: but it became part of the protocol used in the nfl settlement and effectively meant black players had to score more poorly than white players on cognition tests. the claims process was approved by a judge after the league and the players' legal team reached an agreement, but many of the players say they knew nothing about the race norming, including amman gordon he played in the nfl for eight years, retiring in 2012 do you have any sense of how many concussions you may have gotten over that period of time >> i have no idea. i mean, innumerable amounts. >> reporter: now he suffers from headaches, anxiety and panic attacks. >> imagine your brain being frozen until about noon. >> if we're lucky. >> some days are better than others >> some days are
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