The Price We Pay – Part 2
We wrote about the remarkable Reggie Williams last week and how he was headed to the Annual College Football Hall of Fame this past weekend. (Read the post and article by clicking HERE.)
In a follow-up article, the St. Petersburg Times’ Gary Shelton covered the event in South Bend, Indiana. Shelton sits in on a conversation between Williams and Richard Wood, another former Bucaneer (like Dave), as they compared notes on pain and medications. Wood mentions a few token payments that the NFLPA had given him for eight months this past year. But like many of his fellow players, Wood can no longer keep up with his mounting medical costs and now has no medical benefits because his wife recently lost her job at Disney (possibly as a result of their medical claims). And of course, the NFLPA still continues to deny that his injuries are football-related.
Unfortunately, Richard Wood’s story is not an exception but the norm. And if the poor guy could even manage to get a job, then the NFLPA would automatically say that he can work so he doesn’t qualify for benefits. Is that like Gene Upshaw telling someone in jail that he can’t be guilty because everyone in prison is innocent?
Read the entire Times’ article by clicking HERE.