NFL reportedly tried to influence government brain research study

A congressional investigation found the NFL tried to improperly influence a government brain research study conducted by the National Institutes of Health.

According to a 91-page congressional report, obtained by ESPN's Outside the Lines, "at least a half-dozen top NFL health officials" ran an improper campaign last year in an attempt to influence a study on football's effects on brain disease.

The congressional report says the league pressured the NIH into taking the $16 million study away from a prominent researcher Robert Stern of Boston University, then "tried to redirect the money to members of the league's committee on brain injuries." The league also tried to give the NIH an…