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Bernie Parrish

4/17/2009
Subject: Madden not paying retired players while collecting over $100 million in royalties off the retired players’ backs – Did Madden scramble your identity to keep from paying you?

The retired NFL players who were used in Madden EA video games will be suing Madden and EA for using us in those games without compensating us. Madden’s agent Sandy Montag boasts he and Madden collected over $100,000,000 in royalties while paying the retired NFL players used in those games absolutely nothing. Madden knows that the ugly truthful litigation is coming and is probably factoring that into his retirement. I doubt he wants to answer all those fans who will be asking, “Why, John Madden? Why did you screw all those retired players over, you seemed like such a friendly, good-natured buffoon?”

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The New Boss

22 March 2009

DeMaurice Smith

Seven long months after the sudden departure of Gene Upshaw, the NFLPA finally selected DeMaurice Smith as its new Executive Director at its Annual Meeting in Hawaii last week. Few of you could have missed all the recent coverage on the run-up to the election including all of the sideline drama on some of the candidates like Troy Vincent.

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