Some of you still remember those Congressional Hearings from last year into the NFL and NFLPA’s disability mess. During those hearings, Gene Upshaw had the details from private disability application hearings for 9 retired players’ cases (Dave’s case was one of them) publicly posted on the NFLPA’s website is that infamous White Paper. As soon as we discovered what they had done, we wrote about it and it was taken down very quickly (click HERE and HERE to read those earlier posts). It was just another dirty-tricks-as-usual tactic to get even with some of the players who spoke up during those hearings. You would think that would have been the end of it. But it was only recently that we happened to be reviewing the Congressional Judiciary Committee’s final report on their website that we discovered one of the Exhibits under the NFL hearings (Exhibit A) contained the same information from the NFLPA’s original White Paper, including all that personal disability data for each of those 9 retired players’ hearings! (Below is a screenshot of the earlier page with Exhibit A available.)
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Last week, Dave received a note and a packet of paperwork from Eden Haladay at the NFL Player Care Foundation. Dave had no idea why they were even sending him something like this but we took some time to look over the paperwork and the process involved.
Keep in mind that over the years, Dave’s experiences with the various “programs” have generally resulted in a lot of skepticism and made cynics out of most of us who have followed these things for a while. The best recent example was Dave’s experience with the Hip Replacement program (read about some of that in a recent post HERE). continue reading »
Well, here it is: John Hogan’s proposed NFLPA Disability Plan that he would have liked to have presented to Commissioner Goodell and all of the players present at the Oct. 8th Dallas meeting (click HERE to read about what happened). (And John Hogan’s website is HERE).
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Dear Gene,
For some strange reason, things seem to keep disappearing or changing, much like the rules. What happened to:
- The original Union website: NFLPA.org?
- The Truth Squad: They were supposed to unequivocally counter all those claims from the disabled retired players that don’t exist. Honest. (The truth will set you free.)
- The Great White Paper: Wasn’t it a violation of the retired players’ civil rights and/or HIPAA law for their union – the NFLPA – to post our medical information on a public website without their permission or knowledge?
- Information continues to completely disappear from the NFLPA replacement website, NFLPlayers.com. (Thank goodness for Google search because it may be deleted but NOT lost!)
- Another good example is that press release for the 4-page $240,000 spread for Gene Upshaw in Ebony Magazine. Where did that go?
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