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We just received this from retired Miami Dolphins Killer B’s Charles Bowser regarding his missing $10,000 Severance Check:

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Read into it what you will but we don’t recall too many times when the NFLPA has stepped into an arbitration hearing for a retired player in the past. What we really have a problem understanding is why the NFL insists on asking for arbitration anyway. Wouldn’t it have been easier – and a whole lot smarter – just to have paid these guys their Severance Pay in the first place? (Click on the images to enlarge for easier reading.)

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Dave,

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Most of you have been following our recent coverage on the missing Severance Pay that more and more retired players have come to realize that they’ve never received. The NFLPA has just put together an outline of steps that former players can follow on Severance Pay. Andre Collins, Director for Player Benefits, submitted these instructions this morning.

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We swear – we’re NOT making any of this stuff up! Looks like we are now officially going into CYA time and people are coming forward with more documentation on Burt Grossman’s missing $40,000 Severance Pay. These documents just arrived this morning from Burt’s attorney, Daniel Anastasia, via Burt. We hope the PA continues to take ownership of this and starts to question the issue of Severance Pay for all the other retired players. A lot of them are also only now discovering that they haven’t been paid (including Lionel James who has gone through an almost identical stonewall process like Burt). Be sure to read our prior post this morning from Irv Cross that includes the language in the ’82 contract covering Severance from that agreement – click HERE to read it.

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Lionel,

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I know many of you remember how tough the ’82 season was: a 57-day strike, a shortened season and a brand new wage scale. One of the highlights of the ’82 through ’86 contract was supposed to be SEVERANCE PAY.

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I hope most of you have been following our posts on Burt Grossman’s Severance Pay debacle with the NFL. It’s just more standard business practice for the League and its owners.

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Here we go again. More on Burt Grossman’s continuing battle for his Severance Check. Burt’s attorney, Daniel Anastasia, has written a response back to the NFL Management Council’s attorney, Brook Gardiner, as well as a request to the NFLPA’s Tom Depaso to provide some assistance in his efforts to locate his money.

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Well, we knew it was going to get interesting but we had no idea HOW interesting it was going to get. After first discovering that he had $40,000 in Severance Pay owed to him since his retirement in 1994, Burt Grossman has been going through what can only be described politely as a maze of pure bureaucracy. Short of telling him ‘The dog ate the paperwork’, the NFL has fed him just about every excuse they could come up with:

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Luke ,

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For the past couple of days, we had a run of comments on an earlier post between Burt Grossman and Lionel James about their missing Severance Pay. It turns out that Burt has been going in circles with the NFL, the Eagles front office and the NFLPA trying to get the $40,000 in severance that he had coming after retiring from the Eagles in 1994 based on rules set out in the CBA. We even put him in touch with Mitchell Welch from Gay Culverhouse’s Players’ Outreach so they could see firsthand how little assistance retired players can expect once they’re out of the game. Like the old expression goes: The lights are on but no one’s home.

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