attorney chris seeger is representing the former players.e's the same man who negotiated the original settlement. but he's now under fire himself. from several outraged players and their families. >> i'm really sorry that anybody, anybody, any client of mine in this program has been made to feel this way. that is a big mistake. it was a failure of the system. >> reporter: now in an exclusive interview with abc news, seeger is making a shocking admission. >> i was wrong. >> reporter: after years of controversy, in 2013 the nfl and thousands of retired football players came to a landmark agreement. hundreds of of millions of dollars have already been paid out to more than 1,000 players suffering from the lickeringeri effects of head injuries. seeger was its biggest architect and its biggest cheerleader. >> you're not going to hear me try to claim that it's perfect. it's the result of litigation and nothing that comes out of litigation is perfect, but it's good. >> they were tough negotiations. probably the one case in my career where there was

. >> we first need to get chris seeger thrown out on his ear. >> we request that you remove chris seegere players' attorney of record. does that concern you, especially at a time you're now charged with trying to fix this issue? >> i care about my clients. i have a lot more happy clients than unhappy clients in this settlement. i don't know anybody who clicked yes on that petition. or if i really want to spend a lot of my time dealing with an online petition. >> you don't feel this is representative of the players you represent? >> not at all. not only do i not feel it, i know it's not. i know it's not. it's not representative of the players, it's not representative of my position. if i was wrong and their claim was downscored because of race-norming, it will get rescored, and they will get their money. i'm the guy fixing it. >>> when we come back, chris seeger answering his critics, admitting he was wrong when it comes to race-norming. >> i didn't have a full appreciation of the scope of the problem. >> reporter: seeger claims he was not the only one responsible. >> do i think they were

chris seeger, who we _ and that's very good. chris seeger, who we feel— and that's very good.ink we're at go _ represent us. in fact, we think we're at go through the civil rights division~ _ we're at go through the civil rights division. we think we're building a solid _ division. we think we're building a solid case — division. we think we're building a solid case about how he has violated our civil— solid case about how he has violated our civil rights. one other thing we'd _ our civil rights. one other thing we'd like — our civil rights. one other thing we'd like to see, we'd like to see them _ we'd like to see, we'd like to see them review all the other cases that were denied. and to pay those guys for all— were denied. and to pay those guys for all their— were denied. and to pay those guys for all their heart ache they've had to go— for all their heart ache they've had to go through today. finally, what we need _ to go through today. finally, what we need is — to go through today. finally, what we need is some transparency, so we need _ we need is some transparency, so w

you can't get left politics out of woody guthrie or pete seeger.o celebrate people's culture. >> if you like the music, you were really signing on for their ways of looking at the world, too. ♪ and then, eventually, one guy emerges as being special. ♪ ♪ a bullet from the back of a bush took medgar evers' blood ♪ >> during that time in the '60s, as that cultural revolution was slowly bubbling and kids were starting to question authority, question what was happening in their country, they're looking for answers. >> bob dylan thought that folk music was poetry. he took beat energy and mixed it with folk culture, and it's more lyrical intensity than anybody's put to song before. ♪ and the negro's name is used, it is plain ♪ ♪ for the politician's gain as he rises to fame ♪ >> up until the time of bob dylan, there were the songwriters and there were the singers. dylan started writing his own music. >> he says, i am going to comment on the world, i'm going to comment on the nature of this human experience. bob dylan was sort of in this white-hot moment o

for two american poets who wrote beautifully and tragically of the war that took their lives alan seeger who had a rendezvous with death at midnight in some flaming town. and to his pledged word was true and did not fail that rendezvous. and joyce kilmer who lies in a new made grave today in a wood they call the rouge bouquet slumber. well where the shell screamed and fell let your rifles rest on the muddy floor. you will not need them anymore. this memorial is for the man for whom this park is named general john pershing. and for the 18 year old corporal who once shook his hand frank buckles the last american veteran of the war who at the age of 108 testified before congress and support of this memorial. we have a responsibility to corporal buckles and the nearly five million other americans men and women citizens and immigrants and native peoples of every race and faith of every creed and color. who answered their country's call and went and harm's way? it is our duty to remember them. and their names and their honor and in their memory. thank all of you for being here today. and thank

the nfl says it's considering alternatives to race-norming in evaluating claims and seeger is reviewingred into a denial. still both sides have to come an agreement, as thousands of families and millions of dollars hang in the balance, michael. >> ryan, what are some other implications for the league if they have to go back and look at all those cases again? >> reporter: michael, the primary implication is financial. you think about claims and awards that are given for head injuries sustained while playing the game under the concussion settlement program. it can range from hundreds of thousands of dollars, to millions of dollars, so the nfl would have to go through the history of where race might have played a factor or appealed a decision based on not including race as a factor. so there's a lot to sort through here and it may take some time. >> definitely a lot of money involved. for families who think that race-norming affected their claim, what impact has this had on them? >> michael, i've talked to several of them and it has been devastating and this particular part of it has been