It's not that they're being assigned responsibility so much as actively campaigning against it - which puts them squarely in the middle of the issue. If the uni

It's not that they're being assigned responsibility so much as actively campaigning against it - which puts them squarely in the middle of the issue. If the union was fighting for safety while the NFL was remaining quiet it'd be one thing. But when the organization is actually working to make the game more dangerous, they've squared off against the players.