Harold Henderson’s Outreach To Retired Players
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Thank you for attending the meeting in Washington to hear from Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith about recent steps to address the needs of former players and for sharing your views on those efforts. In particular, we appreciate your suggestions on ways to better make retired players aware of resources and benefits available to them and their teammates. The view of everyone present that most retired players do not know about assistance programs was supported by the survey we reviewed.
You asked me specifically to tell you what the University of Michigan survey does for retired players. The short answer is it provides factual information, obtained directly from former players, about their current and past health, economic and social conditions. This is valuable because it allows all of us working to improve the lives of retired players to focus on finding real solutions to true problems, rather than acting on the basis of rumor, conjecture and popular myths. Before long that report will be publicly available online so everyone interested can read it. A few of the highlights which are important to retired players are: continue reading »
