Disability attorney John Hogan went through one more go-round with the NFL Disability Program for another older retired player recently (his name has been removed to protect the innocent). We’re posting the correspondence online so everyone can see the kind of insanity most of the older players end up going through. (And that’s only after you manage to navigate into their system.)
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You just can’t make this stuff up!
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We’ve posted a copy of the correspondence to Scribd for viewing and to make it downloadable. You can also click the Fullscreen button to enlarge it for easier navigation (hit the ESC key to close).
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This is the NFL Disability Plan
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How time flies. It’s been over 6 months since NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell first announced his tour back in September to hear all about retired players’ grievances. (That story first appeared HERE.) You may remember that this tour was announced with great fanfare and press last year as Roger Goodell’s opportunity to speak and listen to the retired players across the country. If the reports have been accurate, it sounds like the Commish managed to visit a staggering 6 NFL cities out of a total of 32 teams (?!!) before all press releases stopped.
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The Congressional Confirmation Hearings for Eric Holder as Attorney General are going on right now. Most of the retired players have expressed their negative views about this mouthpiece and lobbyist for the NFL. Their fears of Holder running interference with ongoing Congressional investigations into the NFL’s mistreatment of its retired players need to be brought to the forefront to ensure that Holder will be forced to recuse himself from anything to do with the NFL. Better yet – after looking at some of the press coverage on the things he’s been involved with over the years, perhaps he shouldn’t be confirmed.
No doubt, Holder is one of the best lawyers money can buy… But surely there are better, more ethical attorneys (is that an oxymoron?) for the job?
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Anonymous sources have pointed us to the fact that a Jon Roehlk received a payment from the NFL Alumni Dire Need Assistance Charitable Trust in 2003. Roehlk received $15, 298 for “medical expenses.”
We did some research and discovered that Roehlk claims to have played for the Chicago Bears in 1987 for 3 games. But a few of you might remember that ’87 was the year of the lock-out and the NFL brought in scab players to play while the real players stayed out of the game. That’s a whopping $5,000 a game in 1987 as a scab (many of the players have another name for that but I can’t publish them here!)!
While I wouldn’t want to kick someone while they’re down, I think comparing a few facts might be a good idea. Roehlk’s apparently went on to play for the AFL from 1987 – 1995 (see ArenaFan.com) and then as an assistant coach for the Quad Cities Steamwheelers from 2002 – 2005 when he got the $15,298 from the NFL Alumni Dire Need Assistance Fund in 2003.
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