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		<title>Dan Pastorini Gets the Boot from George Martin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Pastorini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave - . After reading over the NFL Alumni&#8217;s Group Licensing Agreement, I decided to notify them that I couldn&#8217;t &#8211; and wouldn&#8217;t &#8211; accept their GLA which has developed virtually no revenue whatsoever for retired players. In fact, it looks to be clearly designed to impact and damage the Dryer v. NFL lawsuit on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Legacy Fund Letters Arriving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://davepear.com/blog/?p=11077</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: We just received this today from retired player John Griffin. We hope someone will review and provide comments on this set of documents. You can find suggested Addendum wording to add to your signed documents on an earlier post &#8211; click HERE. . Here is a copy of the second packet I received [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disability Increases Arriving</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/12/disability-increases-arriving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Pear</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://davepear.com/blog/?p=11042</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I had mentioned in an earlier post, a deposit showed up last Friday in my bank account that wasn&#8217;t quite as much as my normal disability payment (and they always show up on the first of the month). It wasn&#8217;t until yesterday that a letter arrived in my mail to explain what several of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CBA Settlement Details Now Online</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/12/cba-settlement-details-now-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://davepear.com/blog/?p=11015</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We now have a publicly available copy of the Settlement Agreement details and the subsequent Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) made when the CBA was ratified. The individual active players (Brady et al) agreed to drop their suits that were filed against the NFL when the Union decertified during the lockout. We&#8217;re posting this for weekend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Update Newsletter from Hausfeld LLP &amp; Zelle Hofmann</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/12/newsletter-2-hausfeld-llp-zelle-hofmann/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a yearend update from Hausfeld LLP and Zelle Hofmann including articles from disability attorney John Hogan and George Visger. . We&#8217;ve uploaded their newsletter to Scribd for easy viewing and to make it downloadable for printing. You can also click the Enlarge icon in the center of the menu at the bottom of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bette Schwager: I Will NOT Sign That Release!</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/12/bette-schwager-i-will-not-sign-that-release/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://davepear.com/blog/?p=10966</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Dave has been talking with Bette Schwager over the past few weeks about her treatment (or mistreatment) at the hands of the NFLPA and the Players Assistance Trust (PAT). We asked her to write the story in her own words so that our readers can understand just a little of the senseless treatment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Legacy Letters Arriving</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/12/first-legacy-letters-arriving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://davepear.com/blog/?p=10962</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you have already received your first letter from the NFL/NFLPA Benefits Office. The letter appears to be a standard letter that declares how your funds will be paid out by the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Players Retirement Plan. (Thanks to John Griffin for getting a copy of his letter to us so quickly!) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the Posturing Begin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://davepear.com/blog/?p=10931</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You would think that the NFLPA would have learned by now that any time they let attorney Jeffrey Kessler into a lawsuit, they may as well count on things taking longer and costing more. In case there are still some of you out there who aren&#8217;t familiar with Kessler, he represented the NFLPA in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions on the Disability Plan&#8230; from an Expert</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/11/questions-on-the-disability-plan-from-an-expert/</link>
		<comments>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/11/questions-on-the-disability-plan-from-an-expert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hogan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://davepear.com/blog/?p=10883</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Several weeks back, the NFLPA put out a request to local chapters for three questions to send along to their big meeting in Washington DC. Disability Attorney John Hogan actually had a few questions to point out in the new CBA. John also has some observations from a recent case that was “approved” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want More Info on Retired Players&#8217; &#8220;Benefits&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://davepear.com/blog/2011/11/want-more-info-on-retired-players-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RobertinSeattle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of weeks, absolutely nothing of any serious significance or substance out of the NFLPA regarding retired players pensions especially that new Legacy Fund, other than a lot of the same chest-thumping and empty rhetoric that everyone has been hearing since the lockout ended late this summer. It would certainly seem like [...]]]></description>
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