At the beginning of May, I had mailed and posted a series of questions to Mary-Ann Fleming, the NFL’s Director of Player Benefits. (Click HERE to read the original questions I’d submitted.) A week later, I received a short letter from them informing me that she was away on business and then on vacation. Nearly a month after sending out my first letter, I finally received a 3-page response via FedEx. (By the way, what’s the deal with all that? No one gets back to me quickly and when you do, there are no answers to my questions. You take over 2 years to finally decide to send me a second reimbursement check for $202.68 as your share of a $60,000 surgery. Yet you have paid assistants to respond that you’re away on vacation. And everything’s done by FedEx – at our plan’s expense, no less.)
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Here is a copy of Mary-Ann Fleming’s letter. She says that a check for $202.68 should arrive in 3-4 weeks! Let’s see, I submitted these additional out-of-pocket expenses over a year ago (and that was a year after they sent me my first reimbursement check for $517.63 in late December, 2008) and now they finally decide to approve this new check. WOW! Talk about a fast turnaround! (Click on the thumbnails to enlarge for reading.)
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Memo to DeMaurice Smith,
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Your statement as recently quoted in The Charlotte Observer, “The rift we had in the past with our former players is over,” said Smith. “It is done.” is simply not true. (You can read the article by clicking HERE.) NOTHING could be further from the truth. Where did you come up with this conjecture?
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Your new appointment of Robert Smith to the disability board to replace Tom Mr. Conflict-of-Interest Condon was another example of the intent of the NFLPA Leadership to continue business as usual (also known as the Upshaw-Way-or-the-Highway). From the statements Smith is already making, he sounds even worse than Condon! (If that’s possible!)
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Here’s the headline from USA Today:
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Roger Goodell: NFL, armed forces sharing head injury information for almost two years
“When I went to Afghanistan, I went with Admiral (Michael) Mullen (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). We stopped in Ireland and got a beer in Shannon (an Irish airport), and he said one of the issues they were having was MBTI, the Mild Brain Trauma Injury. When a soldier has a brain injury, when is it safe to put him back on the battlefield? I said, ‘We have a lot of experience with this, admiral. We’d be happy to exchange information with you.’ “
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