We’ve arrived in Las Vegas to prepare for our First Annual Independent Football Veterans Conference. In a short span of two months, we’ve been fortunate in being able to assemble a terrific lineup of speakers who will help to cover a focused range of topics that are most relevant to retired football players today: From legal matters to pensions as well as information on some of the latest discoveries and treatments for those injuries most of you have been carrying for years. You can read about the topics we’ll be covering along with a Speakers’ List over at our new 2011 Conference website – just click HERE. And you’ll also find our finalized schedule there.
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First Annual Independent Football Veterans Conference
We’re finally ready to announce our new nonprofit as well as our First Annual Independent Football Veterans Conference! We’ll be meeting in Las Vegas at the South Point Resort & Casino March 24 – 27, 2011. This Conference will provide an open platform for retired players to attend and participate in discussions on important topics ranging from benefits to the latest information on brain health and concussions, as well as social events that will allow our attendees to catch up on the old days.
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Greetings from Las Vegas
We’ve been at the Independent Retired Football Players Summit at the South Point Resort & Casino in Las Vegas since Thursday and it’s not just the weather that’s been getting hot!
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To those folks who are pulling against the upcoming Independent Retired Players Summit, many of whom are with the NFLPA Golf Tournament down in Palm Springs, you don’t have to call anyone to see how it is coming along. I will bring you up to speed now.
We have already exceeded the number of retired attendees that we started out hoping for. More are still coming in every day. We haven’t waived a registration Fee that we never had and we’re not offering those who are attending the Summit any coupons or a gift of a membership fee to any organization because there’s no group or organization for them to purchase a membership from. Attending Advocates are, of course, free to make any presentation that they would like to. We are not requiring any Advocate to agree with any other on any matter. What the Retired Players feel and think are what is most important to me.
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We’ve been asked many times over the past few weeks about the status of the Independent Summit for NFL Retired Players. It can now be announced that it will take place in Las Vegas on May 28 – 31. Those involved in helping to organize this effort to get all of us together as an Independent Group of NFL Retired Players include me, Tony Davis, Joe DeLamielleure, Dave Pear, Disability Attorney John Hogan, Jeff Nixon, Ben Lynch, Marvin Cobb, Bob Grant, Abner Haynes and Bruce Laird. There are a lot more NFL Retired Players who have assisted in multiple ways with this effort and too many to mention in this announcement. Many of these men have helped by consulting with us. We communicate almost daily and are working to make sure that this event will provide a new direction for NFL Retired Players. What also must be mentioned is that others have been asked to be a part of the organizational process but have chosen not to participate.
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We’ve arrived in Las Vegas to prepare for our First Annual Independent Football Veterans Conference. In a short span of two months, we’ve been fortunate in being able to assemble a terrific lineup of speakers who will help to cover a focused range of topics that are most relevant to retired football players today: From legal matters to pensions as well as information on some of the latest discoveries and treatments for those injuries most of you have been carrying for years. You can read about the topics we’ll be covering along with a Speakers’ List over at our new 2011 Conference website – just click HERE. And you’ll also find our finalized schedule there.