What about the plight of retired players and their disability claims? Concussions and brain injuries along with severe physical impairment continue to plague us.

We never here a word about the leagues plan for restitution. Every promise we hear is on the come and far into the future. In the mean time more players die off or dementia sets in and families are torn apart.

What about strokes? Chronic pain? broken bones? and the list goes on and on.

Concussions will never go away. Then Goodell hires John Madden to look into concussions and claims to have a plan to make the game less violent. Roger, that’s not possible!

Remember: Madden is the guy who made $130,000,000 from Madden video games while retired players with signed GLA agreements received not one penny! Until Bernie Parrish took the NFLPA Leadership to court and sued them. To this day, Madden hasn’t said a word; however, he did run away for two weeks on his first vacation during football season when the Players Inc. trial began. He was probably terrified he might actually have to answer questions about his involvement.

Retired players are the makers of the game but when it comes to pension/disability and medical after football as Upshaw (the former Executive Director of the NFLPA) would say by his actions, “Let ‘em eat cake.”

Click HERE.

It’s fundamentally impossible to take the injuries and violence out of football. The crime is that the NFL will not allow their retired players access to their disability benefits and for many of them, their pensions amount to not much more than a car payment (if they receive anything) and there is NO medical once you retire thanks to their actuaries’ designation of pre-existing conditions.

Concussions and brain injuries are going to become more and more transparent to Congress, to parents who allow their children to play youth football and to the public.

To date, ALL we have received are broken promises.

Regards,

Dave & Heidi Pear