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Wow! We’ve spent some time looking over that NFLPA 2007 LM-2 Filing that they had to turn in to the U.S Dept. of Labor in May 0f 2008. It’s been interesting pulling out .details of how “our union” spends “our money.” We posted some of our first tidbits (click HERE) and then even discovered that the Director of Human Resources had pulled down close to $200,000 that year (click HERE).

But the document was so big that we struggled to find a simple way to put the whole thing up online for everyone to read. We finally decided to break the entire 900+ pages into five sections for easier storage and viewing. Here’s a short guide to what’s in each of the five sections:

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We’re still spending some time poring over that 2007 LM-2 filing from the NFLPA and, like everything else they do – there’s always surprises tucked into every corner. The LM-2 as close as we can get to audit-type numbers as we can find right now. We spent a lot of time trying to locate and download that document from the Dept. of Labor’s website (click HERE read that earlier post) and eventually, a friend in the media pointed us in the right direction. But before we finally discovered where to find it, we actually went ahead and placed an online order for a printed copy of the document to be sent out by US mail. Of course, we had no idea the thing would be well over 800 pages long at a cost of 15¢ a page! So we were somewhat relieved (it would have cost us well over $120 for one complete copy!) but also perplexed when we got this message back yesterday from the US Dept. of Labor (click image to enlarge for reading):

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CNBC’s Darren Rovell just posted a list of the Top 10 Retired Football Players payments based on public numbers available from the U.S. Dept. of Labor. (Read the article by clicking HERE)

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