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Bernie Parrish’s Objections to the Current Settlement

Sep 20, 2009

Bernie Parrish

I would urge every retired football player to write Judge Alsup whether you are on the (thus far) confirmed Katz/Adderley Kessler/Berthelson list of 2062 or not; there is proof of over 3,000 but it’s up to Judge Alsup to demand it as part of perjured testimony.

Many of you know you signed GLA’s but are not included in Players Inc. records managed by Players Inc. employee, Kelly Skubick, who told interviewers she took care of licensing for “over 3,000” retired players in an article published on Oct 3, 2008. Katz refused to use this information which I supplied to him in time to be used in the trial. Kelly Skubick has very recently left her $50,000+ job at Players Inc., a job she told the interviewer that she loved. I now understand that her computer with the records of over 3,000 retired players who are covered by licensing agreements may have been damaged by the convenient fire in the NFLPA offices shortly after DeMaurice Smith took office replacing Upshaw. Katz has allowed Berthelson and Kessler to continue saying only 2,062 retired players had signed GLA’s when he knew that was not true and that the Players Inc. employee who handled servicing those GLA’s on a daily basis said there are over 3,000. That, Mr. Katz, is perjury on their part as I pointed out to you shortly after I gave you that information which certainly extends any time limit problems you claim to exist.

This issue is important since it reduces the damage award in this case by 33% whatever the true amount of the award should be. That is an increase of $9.3 million raising the incorrect $28.1 million to $37.4 million while 133% of $106.9 million raises the Rowley-calculated damages to over $140 million. Since the NFLPA’s Executive Committee calls $28.1 million “Chump Change,” they need a stronger message – like $140 million from Judge Alsup’s court.

PERHAPS THE BEST OPTION IS TO PRINT THIS OUT, SIGN IT AND MAIL IT TO JUDGE ALSUP. LET HIM KNOW WE ALL CARE, WE ARE MAD AS HELL AND WE AREN’T GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!

  • Here’s an e-mail from Herb Adderley that all retired NFL players should know about: “There has been an amendment drawn up by the lawyers to present to the NFLPA about the retired guys not being able to file a lawsuit against any company that does business with the NFLPA… Ex. [ EA ] sports… There was a paragraph in the settlement documents stating that the retired guys can’t file another class action suit against the NFLPA/ EA, or any other company who does business with the NFLPA… Judge Alsup read it, and said NO to approving the settlement until that stuff was removed… I can’t tell you why our lawyers agreed to not filing any more lawsuits…” – Herb Adderley
  • Geez, Herb. You claim not to understand why “our lawyers” were giving up our rights to more lawsuits. Could it have something to do with money? Lawyers, money and deals? Perhaps future legal fees from EA, Madden, Topps, NFL Ventures, Inc, Reebok, NFL, NFLPA, etc., etc.? The judge said that YOU direct the attorneys, not the other way around! Why did YOU direct them to “agree to not filing any more lawsuits…”?
  • Many of you will recall receiving my past e-mails about our attorney Ron Katz and Adderley giving up our retired players rights to sue the NFLPA and its collaborators in the future.
  • Our lawyer Ron Katz told Preston Carpenter, in the following revealing e-mail dated Sept. 5, 2009 as if he, Katz and Adderley (Herb as Class Representative) hadn’t just gotten caught by Judge Alsup 30 days earlier trying to screw over all retired players by giving away our rights to sue the NFLPA and EA or any other company who does business with the NFLPA which seems to include all those who conspire with the NFLPA to defraud retired players, scrambling identities etc.:

Saturday, September 5, 2009 6:24 PM

From “Katz, Ron”

Dear Mr. Carpenter:

In every settlement, claims are released or else there is no point for the Defendant to settle. We have negotiated as narrow a release as we can: for example, no pension or disability claims are released and class members can sue Electronic Arts on licensing issues if they wish.

Very truly yours,

Ron

  • Wrong again, Mr. Katz, but it is understandable that you would cite “claims and releases” as the reason for your pre-Aug. 4th settlement you “crafted” with Jeffery Kessler. The point of settling this suit is to avoid paying even the minimal court-ordered penalties assessed against the NFLPA of $28.1 million. The $28.1 million was to send an appropriate punitive message to the NFLPA to stop the union from abusing the retired players. The $28.1 million was not intended to be part of a $300+ million scheme to continue to cheat the retired NFL players. Look at the shiny $28.1 million object in this hand while we take $300+ million out of your pockets with the other hand.
  • The NFLPA management was guilty of fraud, not some minor white collar fiduciary oversight. NFLPA General Counsel Richard Berthelson, the author of the infamous GLA – the “masterpiece of obfuscation” – said in the 2008 LM2 union report as the Union’s General Counsel that “The NFLPA was involved in several lawsuits but the verdicts in those suits would have NO material effect on the NFLPA.” This was after Berthelsen lied to the court saying, “The damages would do great harm to the union.”
  • Pensions and disability had absolutely nothing to do with this settlement or this case which was only about “group licensing”, but now being able to sue over pensions and disability issues are a claimed negotiating victory for Katz? Katz has steadfastly refused to sue for us on pension and disability issues, even though I asked him to sue them on numerous occasions. Katz even refused to meet with Rep. Maxine Waters to discuss the retired player’s pension and disability issues.
  • Class members could not sue Electronic Arts under the settlement document before Aug 4, 2009 when Judge Alsup caught and stopped Katz and Adderley’s attempt to give away that $300+ million of our additional claims against EA/Madden, etc. Giving millions of dollars of our claims to their new NFLPA Kumbaya partners is a far cry from treating them as the “hateful opponents” as Katz once described them in an e-mail to Adderley and me. Katz also said those “hateful opponents” acted with “malicious intent” which they did. This Katz/Adderley, giveaway plan was going to be a $301,750,000+ million gift of retired players’ future lawsuit recoveries to the NFLPA white collar cheats and their numerous willing collusive partners.
  • Judge Alsup amended the settlement on August 4, 2009 after a “secret” hearing and stopped Katz and Adderley’s planned giveaway. Hearing a rumor about it, I called Judge Alsup’s clerk and left her one recorded telephone message saying that Katz was not telling me (his client, the guy who hired him) what was going on and a couple days later Judge Alsup issued a court order dated Aug 7, 2009 to Katz to “meet and confer” with me (Bernard Paul Parrish) about the settlement.
  • This attempted secret giveaway is a $300+ million giveaway attempted by Katz and Adderley continued through the week of Aug 4, 2009. That is last month, guys. The question is what were Katz and Adderley expecting in return from DeMaurice Smith, Richard Berthelson and Jeffery Kessler and the NFL for their $300+ million gift?
  • The Great Katz/Adderley settlement giveaway reads as if it was crafted by NFLPA attorneys Jeffery Kessler and Richard Berthelson, and then drafted by Latham & Watkins to hide it behind a new name to serve as a distraction a diversion that they deducted $1,850,000 from our $28.1 million to pay for. “They” being Demaurice Smith, Berthelson & Kessler and Katz/Adderley. Now that Judge Alsup has jerked the rug out from under their $300+million scheme, are they still going to pay Latham & Watkins $1,850,000 of our $28.1 million?
  • We all need to let Katz and Adderley and Judge Alsup know how rotten you think Katz and Adderley’s backroom dealings are and that you don’t trust them to represent you any longer. Had Judge Alsup not caught them, their $300+ million of back door giveaway would be part of the settlement agreement today and we would never be able to recover the money we have been cheated out of by the same people who continue to control the NFLPA and Players Inc and NFL Ventures Inc.
  • Now John Madden has conveniently moved into a corner of Goodell’s office as an “Advisor” to him, probably on how to collect $130 million of Royalties from video games while paying the retired players he uses in many of his video games absolutely nothing. Goodell and Madden have a lot in common.
  • Katz and Adderley are covering up their giveaway with righteous declarations about a great Victory, a new ERA of peace and harmony, one locker room, endorsements of DeMaurice Smith, lots of smiles, and handshaking etc. while Katz and Adderley have known all along they were giving away our future rights to recover what Upshaw’s gang of NFLPA white collar crooks have taken and are trying to let them continue to cheat us and stay in power.
  • I asked Katz to make the NFLPA provide an appeal bond when we heard the ruling by the jury was in our favor, as he and I had discussed earlier when he was telling me the NFLPA would owe us over $100 million. He chose not to demand that bond. The question is why did he ultimately choose not to require that appeal bond? Why wasn’t an NFLPA appeal bond required by the Judge so our guys would get paid in one payment when the appeal is decided in our favor? The NFLPA wouldn’t be settling if they really thought they would win the appeal which Katz said was following the settlement press conference is scheduled by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for April 15, 2010. That is only seven months to get the whole $28.1 million plus interest in one payment.
  • Katz now is trying to spin my phone call to the Judge Alsup’s clerk to make it look like I was doing something wrong or irrational by trying to find out what he and Adderley were up to and why there was a hearing in the first week of August 2009 on the settlement that he wasn’t telling me about.
  • Then Katz pulled a frat boy prank sending me emails 1) Saying he would call me on Aug 18. 2) He then changed that with a middle of the night 2:19AM-EST email on the 18th telling me to call a telephone number that same day the 18th. Having been asleep at 2:19AM not seeing his email I was still expecting him to call me on that same day the 18th. When I did not call Katz because I didn’t see his 2:19AM email until it was too late Katz sent a messenger scurrying to Judge Alsup to tell him I was being uncooperative and convinced Judge Alsup to issue another Court order saying Katz had satisfied his August 7, 2009 “meet and confer” court order. Of course Judge Alsup didn’t know the facts but that didn’t slow him down from accepting Katz’ “self-serving assertions” so he issued a new court order at Katz request.
  • After Katz’ first email Aug 9, about using a telephone call to “meet and confer” I told him a telephone call would not do and that he should come to Gainesville, Florida where I live to “meet and confer” in the same conference room in my other attorney, his Co-counsel Sam Mutch’s office where I interviewed and hired him and Lew LeClair in Dec. 2006 & Jan. 2007. Katz argued that in the Northern California District a telephone call is used to “meet and confer” and that I should come to Northern California to “meet and confer.” Katz gets his expenses reimbursed by NFLPA but he is blocking me and attorney Sam Mutch from getting any of our expenses reimbursed while he claims that Manatt and McKool Smith have invested over $8 million in the case and no one else (that is Co-counsel attorney Sam Mutch and me) has invested anything. When Katz was trying to show I am a venomous zealot about the retired players issues and an uncompromising NFLPA critic, he told the court and everyone else I had been working on these issues for “forty years”. From Jan. 2007 to Nov. 2008 I spent 4000+ hours on this case doing research, making phone calls, sending and receiving emails about the case.
  • I recruited and hired Ron Katz, Manatt and Lew LeClair, McKool Smith and I recruited Adderley to be a Class Representative so I feel obligated to deal with the problems they are bringing into my retired player comrades’ lives. Winning $28.1 million does not justify Katz et al bartering away $300+ million of future claims for selfish, damning reasons.
  • The NFLPA/Players Inc. is – in my opinion – a criminal enterprise in and of itself and should be prosecuted under the RICO laws.

Now is the time for all of you, every player who sees this email must write to Judge William H. Alsup to tell him you don’t want Katz or Adderley or LeClair representing you any longer on this case (If you wish photocopy the sample letter below or just print it out or cut it out; sign it and mail it to Judge Alsup. Judge Alsup does not accept emails or faxes.): Please do this now we only have a couple months to effect any change in this settlement. After that there is still a long journey ahead. I believe our families will be collecting from our coming suits like EA and Madden lawsuits for many years to come. The antitrust suit alone is a treble damage worth $300 million by itself to your families. This and future litigation is your opportunity to recover what you have earned for your families by playing a key role in building the NFL into the huge rich business that it is today.

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You can also download a PDF version of this letter to send the judge by right-clicking HERE and then clicking Save Link As to save it to your computer for printing and signing.

To the Honorable Judge William H. Alsup
United States District Court,
Northern District of California,
450 Golden Gate Avenue,
San Francisco, CA 94102

RE: Bernard Parrish et al. v. National Football League Players Inc., et al (C07-0943 WHA)

Dear Judge Alsup:

Since you caught Mr. Katz, Mr. LeClair, and Mr. Adderley during the week of Aug 4, 2009 trying to give away $300+ million of our legal rights to make further recoveries in court from the NFLPA/EA and its other collusive partners who continue to exploit retired NFL players today and every day, I don’t want to be represented by Manatt (Ron Katz) or McKool Smith (Lew LeClair) or Herb Adderley any longer. But for your timely surprise intervention they would have sold out all of our legal rights to recover what we have been cheated out of by the NFLPA cabal in future litigation.

We want the damages recalculated using the expert testimony for damage calculations for this case dated May 23, 2008 by Philip Rowley that Mr. Katz did not get entered in time and you disallowed at the final moments during closing arguments. That expert report showed damages to be between $13.2 million and $106.9 million. You allowed the Jury to use a $7.1 million amount as a base for the damages that came from one of the two sets of phony NFLPA books that in-house NFLPA bookkeeper William Garner created for the NFLPA before he left and went to work for Rep. Stenny Hoyer as his in-house bookkeeper. Nobody knows which set of books was used except the defendants who provided that financial information which did not even match the union’s LM2 reports as Daniel Rauscher’s May 23, 2008 expert report showed. Inaccurate self-serving NFLPA bookkeeping has been documented by experts hired by the Boston Globe all the way back to the 1980’s. Allowing the jury to use books and records supplied by the proven cheats at the NFLPA is worse than just unfair to the plaintiffs who won the case. We want the damages recalculated using our expert witnesses Rowley and Rauscher’s financial reports.

Thank you for protecting us from the unfair Katz/Adderley claim releases in August. Please complete righting the wrongs inflicted on us by our own legal representatives and protect us from them in the future.

The NFLPA has plenty of money to pay us all of what they owe us in one payment immediately. Richard Berthelsen, the author of the “masterpiece of obfuscation” (the GLA) chose to pay Gene Upshaw’s estate over $17 million in a single cash payment, then he claims an NFLPA cash shortfall so the NFLPA cannot pay the damages from our case in one payment because of it; while at the same time conspiring with EA to vindictively punish retired players by discontinuing marketing EA’s Vintage video games so royalties to retired players will no longer accrue.

Sincerely,

Sign here:

Retired NFL Player

Circle class member YES  NO

Write Judge Alsup whether you are on the (thus far) confirmed Katz/Adderley Kessler/Berthelson list of 2062 or not there is proof of over 3,000 but it is up to Judge Alsup demands it as part of perjured testimony.

Many of you know you signed GLA’s but are not included in Players Inc records managed by Players Inc employee Kelly Skubick who told interviewers she took care of licensing for “over 3,000” retired players in an article published on Oct 3, 2008. Katz refused to use this information which I supplied to him in time to be used in the trial. Kelly Skubick has very recently left her $50,000+ job at Players Inc, that she told the interviewer in the Oct 3, 2008 interview that she loved. I understand her computer with the records of over 3,000 retired players who are covered by licensing agreements may have been damaged by the convenient fire in the NFLPA office shortly after DeMaurice Smith took office replacing Upshaw. Katz has allowed Berthelson and Kessler to continue saying only 2062 retired players had signed GLA’s when he knew that was not true and that the Players Inc employee who handled servicing those GLA’s on a daily basis said there are over 3,000. That Mr. Katz is perjury on their part as I pointed out to you shortly after I gave you that information which certainly extends any time limit problems your claim exist.

This issue is important since it reduces the damage award in this case by 33% whatever the true amount of the award should be. That is an increase of $9.3 million raising the incorrect $28.1 million to $37.4 million while 133% of $106.9 million raises the Rowley calculated damages to over $140 million. Since the NFLPA’s Executive Committee calls $28.1 million “Chump change” they need a stronger message like $140 million from Judge Alsup’s court.

PERHAPS THE BEST UPTION IS TO PRINT THIS OUT, SIGN IT AND MAIL IT TO JUDGE ALSUP. LET HIM KNOW WE ALL CARE WE ARE MAD AS HELL AND WE AREN’T GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!!!

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    September 20th, 2009 at 10:33 am #

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  2. Dave Pear
    September 20th, 2009 at 10:51 am #

    Dave & Heidi Pear
    Thank you, Bernie, for your relentless pursuit for justice!

    As we carefully ponder the events in the Players Inc. trial, we should reflect on who the culprits are and the jury’s verdict: “Malicious and oppressive conduct with evil motive” and “conduct that was outrageous and grossly fraudulent.”

    The NFLPA Leadership conspired with EA Sports to “scramble” the images of retired players in their Madden NFL video games.

    This verdict should compel the vast majority of retired players (may be as many as 95%) who are not part of the inner circle (the 5% who curry favor with the League for financial gain) to refuse to be duped into believing that anything has changed.

    We must stay vigilant and keep on the watch because the same smiling faces (with the exception of Upshaw) are still in power.

    So let’s stay awake and review the settlement verbage prudently so we can discern any obscure language that may limit future claims.

    Being convicted of breaching fiduciary duty in Federal Court is a serious offense even though the League pretends that it’s still business as usual.

    Irrefutable logic would lead one to believe that NFL Films must have played a part in this swindle and therefore also must be accountable.

    John Madden’s silence implies consent because he has received in excess of $100,000,000 in royalties and as stated by Judge Alsup, “The defendants lobbied thousands of retired players for fourteen years to sign up for (the marketing program), yet never paid one cent to any retired player under the program?”

    Sincerely,
    Dave & Heidi Pear

  3. D.D. Lewis
    September 20th, 2009 at 7:33 pm #

    D.D. Lewis
    We have a great warrior in Bernie Parrish! Thank you, Bernie and Dave, for keeping us informed and up to date! It’s hard to believe all the corruption and giveaways.

    D.D. Lewis
    Dallas Cowboys 1968 – 1981

  4. William "Red" Mack
    September 21st, 2009 at 10:35 am #

    William Red Mack
    I appreciate what Bernie and Dave are doing for role players like me. I played 6 years and never made more than $15,000. My medical experience is 1 hip replacement and 2 knee replacements. I was told by Gene Upshaw’s group that I had to make my claim within 5 years of my retirement. Now I need my shoulder replaced within the next six months, and could use the money from the class action suit to help pay the bills. I think this is a real stretch that this will happen.

    But whatever direction you decide to go, I’m with you. It doesn’t seem like this action suit will come to a conclusion in our lifetime.

    William “Red” Mack
    1961 – 1966
    Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers

  5. Dave Pear
    September 21st, 2009 at 12:32 pm #

    Dave Pear
    Dear Red,

    Thank you for your support!

    It’s retired players like YOU who made the NFL what it is today.

    The greedy actions by the league continue to cause indignation for retired players.

    Retired players must have the courage to stand firm until we’re vindicated!

    Red, I would recommend that you take a closer look at the new Joint Replacement Program that the League has come up with. The problem is, I’ve personally tried to access this benefit and after 70 hours of my own time going back-and-forth with unqualified and inexperienced employees, all I got back was enough to cover two seat cushions and one $5 co-pay (they sent me a check for around $500 after a $60,000+ surgery plus all the medications and physical therapy sessions that went along with it!).

    For a major operation, aren’t medical benefits paid first by the program or insurance?

    That is not the case with the NFL’s Joint Replacement Program. You have to pay out of your own pocket first, then they take their own good time to decide if and when you might be reimbursed. I personally handed Mary-Anne Fleming another big folder of more receipts while were at The Summit in Las Vegas (at HER request) and I’m STILL waiting just to hear back from her! I guess highly-paid Benefits employees like her and Mary Moran are simply too self-important to look after the guys who pay them their big paychecks! This approach makes absolutely no sense for the injured player; by the time players like us who really need this medical treatment, we simply don’t have the resources to pay first and then go hat-in-hand trying to get back money they didn’t have in the first place. It’s like telling you that you don’t deserve your disability benefits because you were forced to work to provide for your family so you’re well enough NOT to receive your earned disability benefits. The Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle Plan’s philosophy seems to be, “You’re not dead yet so you can’t possibly qualify for benefits!” If I were Bert Bell or Pete Rozelle, I would have been ashamed to have had my name associated with this plan. I certainly wouldn’t have considered it a compliment or an honor!

    The Groom Law Group (once again) has created another debacle that is a total whitewash and nothing more than a PR stunt intended to mislead Congress. They seem to be nothing more than make-work programs for people who don’t need the work. If the there was a legitimate disability program for retired players, then all these meaningless programs wouldn’t be necessary. How about just paying us the money instead?

    And on another topic: John Madden: Where do YOU stand on the Players Inc. swindle?

    Two weeks before the trial last year – and at the start of the the NFL season – you unexpectedly go AWOL and take an “unscheduled two-week vacation.”

    Was this because you were not a subpoenaed witness so you were just ducking the media to avoid any questions about what you knew and when you knew it?

    Usually, you have so much to say. What happened to your normally endless stream of opinions about everything? BOOM! It’s gone! It’s kind of hard to say anything when it’s got your name all over it, isn’t it?

    John, Raider-to-Raider, where do you stand? I wore the silver & black on the field and you wore it on the sidelines. Do you stand with the players or with Al Davis?

    We had a carrot dangled in front of our faces that proved to be fake!

    John, your silence is very telling as to where you stand.

    Regards,

    Dave & Heidi Pear

  6. Bob Grant
    September 21st, 2009 at 11:02 pm #

    Bob Grant
    I urge all of our Retired Players to write Judge Alsup and support Bernie in his objections to this settlement and future representation of the class by Ron Katz and company.

    I also hope that each man who receives a share of the award will contribute to the war-chest that Bernie has proposed so that we can go after NFLPA partner -n-crime Electronic Arts and others who have been involved in wrongs against Retired Players, many of whom were not included in the 2,000 names in the class list.

    If you are receiving monies from this settlement please remember that you were not asked to pay a nickel to make this all happen. You know who started it, hired the attorneys and who is now fighting to make sure that you’re not taken advantage of in this settlement. Please help him to keep the fight going. Even if you don’t help out for the principle or for Bernie, do it for the money – there’s a lot more that these crooks have stolen from us and we need to get it back!

    Bob Grant
    Independent Advocate and Activist for Retired Players

  7. Tommy Mason
    September 22nd, 2009 at 11:16 am #

    Tommy Mason
    If the courts decide that the cause of action has merit, I don’t see why I should get one penny less. If we’re right, why should we get anything less!

    Thank You
    Tommy Mason
    1961 – 1971
    Minnesota Vikings, LA Rams, Washington Redskins

  8. Barbara Sandusky
    September 22nd, 2009 at 6:59 pm #

    Mike Sandusky
    Oh “what a tangled web we weave.” If Judge Alsup doesn’t obtain legal relief for the retirees and their financial problems, I foresee more of the same continuing on and on, and it only seems to be getting worse.

    I wonder if anyone has thought about (if it eventually comes down to it) contacting filmmaker Michael Moore? What a great documentary the retirees’ stories would make. Bernie could be a primary figure and Dave would be smiling from ear-to-ear. I would bet that if the idea ever became a serious consideration with Mr. Moore and initial publicity “got out” you’d see previously denied changes take place for you guys. Keep the idea in your back pocket. No, lock it up safely.

    Keep the faith!

    Barb Sandusky
    wife of Mike Sandusky
    Pittsburgh Steelers ’57 – ’65

  9. Robert
    September 22nd, 2009 at 7:28 pm #

    Barbara -

    What a great idea! Why, we could call it “Roger and Me.” Oh wait – he’s already done that one. Ha Ha!

    Seriously, if all of this was ever put down on paper as a book and eventually made into a film, I think most people would call it fiction. Outside of the players who continue to get messed over, very few people would possibly believe that something this bad could have actually gone on as long as it has with no one doing anything about it! The corruption runs deep AND wide!

    Fortunately, with the Internet and new forms of getting the information out faster – like Twitter – more of the players get informed almost instantly, so it gets harder and harder for the NFLPA and the NFL to maintain the old business-as-usual approach much longer.

    It may have been a good time for Gene Upshaw to exit the building in the middle of the night!

  10. Barbara Sandusky
    September 23rd, 2009 at 6:41 am #

    Mike Sandusky
    Robert-

    As my father used to say, “Everybody is a comedian!” I sure hope the retirees’ NFL/NFLPA fiasco gets resolved in a positive manner, even if it takes more time and effort and the guys have the time, patience and will to hang on. I do have to make an additional comment about my filmmaking thought. It doesn’t have to start out with a book. A phone call at the right time by the right person could get the ball (film) rolling. Right, Mr. Moore?

    Lock it up safely.

    Barbara Sandusky
    wife of Mike Sandusky
    Pittsburgh Steelers ‘57 – ‘65

  11. Andy
    September 23rd, 2009 at 10:40 am #

    Why have the players and retired players permitted the “mob” to control the NFLPA. Shouldn’t Bernie Parrish be the president of the union rather than some high-cost attorney from Washington who got the golden handshake from Katz and LeClair.

    Have you noticed that Katz is billing himself as a “sports attorney” for the first time? If you go back in time, when Bernie hired Katz of the Manatt Phelps & Phillips Law Firm, the firm had no sports attorneys. Is Katz going to become general counsel or special counsel to the NFLPA, after the settlement and ripoff… I mean payoff.

    I want another vote on president of the union and a chance to vote for a guy who is honest and not in someone’s pocket.

    Andy