He sometimes slept in his truck, put himself to sleep with a stun gun and fantasized about shooting NFL executives with an arsenal of weapons he kept under his bed. Webster's cognitive difficulties, the board wrote, were "the result of head injuries [he] suffered as a football player with the Pittsburgh Steelers and KansasCity Chiefs." Now, two years after Webster's death, as his lawyers pressed the board for more money for his family, they obtained confidential documents that showed, among other things, that the NFL retirement board had granted benefits to several other players with longterm brain damage. One document produced by the league showed that the same board had awarded permanent benefits to at least two other players whose doctors concluded they had gotten brain damage from playing pro football.The right knee was still sore throughout much of this year training camp, causing Meriweather to sit out practices. He was kept out of the first three preseason games. C