Three years to the day after the NFL and thousands of former players reached a tentative settlement in a massive concussion class action, the settlement is finally official.

Via the New York Post, Monday came and went without the former players who opposed the settlement filing a petition for appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, ending the case and allowing the settlement to proceed.

“It’s been a long road, and I guess there comes a point in time when you see the end of the road,” Alan Faneca told the Post. “It is for the greater good of everybody.”

The settlement has flaws, but it also provides compensation for players with specific conditions regardless of whether playing pro football caused those conditions.

The biggest hole arises from the inability to prove Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in living players. The estates of deceased players with CTE will be entitled to payment. Living players who have CTE but none of the specific conditions covered by the settlement receive nothing — primarily because there’s currently no way to know whether they have CTE.

If/when a reliable test for diagnosing the condition is developed, the terms of the settlement should be revisited. Until then, it’s finally time for former players who need compensation to receive it.

UPDATE 12:07 p.m. ET: Contrary to the report in the Post, the lawyer representing the class of players who negotiated the settlement has issued a statement indicating that some of the former players who object to the settlement have continued to pursue the appeal process.