Through a series of vignettes and a plethora of empirical evidence, former Cleveland Browns defensive back Bernie Parrish sheds light on football players' lives during and after their careers in the most brutal sport in the world. The players' stories--most of whom played before the current era of multimillion-dollar contracts and signing bonuses--are tragic accounts of corporate neglect at the expense of the players' abilities to live full lives after football. "Iron" Mike Webster, a Hall of Fame center for the legendary Steelers Super Bowl teams, suffered from amnesia, dementia, depression, and acute bone and muscle pain. He lived out of his pickup truck for several years. This once-dominant gridiron figure died in 2002 at only fifty years old. Andre Waters, one of the most feared defenders in the league during his ten-year career, took his own life after only forty-four years. An autopsy examiner determined that, due to numerous concussions, Waters's brain tissue had degenerated into that of an eighty-five-year-old man, leading directly to the depression and pain that haunted him. Delay and Deny finally exposes the inner workings of NFL labor practices, the power and forces behind the NFL, and the extent to which the NFL is willing to go to maintain this disturbing status quo.