BTB: NFL Remembers Its Legends

[CCBoy]

NFL Remembers Its Legends
by Kegbearer



http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2011/7/18/2282036/the-nfl-remembers-its-legends



As good news of progress being made towards a new CBA keeps pouring in, it appears good-faith bargaining, if not just "good" common sense, has indeed reached the negotiating tables. It seems the NFL has not forgotten its own and both sides agreed to set aside funds for retired players. Of course, it's still a little unclear which retired players were looked after the most. PFT reports:

According to multiple reports, the proposed new Collective Bargaining Agreement includes $1 billion in new benefits for retired players over the life of the 10-year deal.

More than $600 million will be put into the "Legacy Fund" for retired players over the next 10 years.



While we should be very happy with these breaking developments, we will have to wait a while before we get to know what will really go to the retired players most deserving, if not desperate. If you go back even a couple of decades, the terrible 5-year post-retirement pension that the current players are trying to turn into a lifetime guarantee would seem incredible to some of the football players that built and developed the game of football and the NFL brand...

 

[THUMPER]

Now they just need to figure out a way to administer those funds appropriately, because that hasn't been done in the past. You can't have some pogue (if you don't know what that is, look it up) making the decisions on who "deserves" to get benefits, it needs to be former players who review each case and respond properly.

 

[CCBoy]

Amen, Thump...:starspin

 

[burmafrd]

yeah- that bunch of gomers who were doing it tried to deny every single claim no matter what. They needed to be drug behind a truck through the desert for a few miles.

 

[CCBoy]

yeah- that bunch of gomers who were doing it tried to deny every single claim no matter what. They needed to be drug behind a truck through the desert for a few miles.

Hand each of them a chem stick. Place them on the back side of a tank trail turn...and instruct them to hurry up a column of tanks cutting trail through the desert.

 

[ZeroClub]

According to multiple reports, the proposed new Collective Bargaining Agreement includes $1 billion in new benefits for retired players over the life of the 10-year deal.

More than $600 million will be put into the "Legacy Fund" for retired players over the next 10 years.

This is great news. I am very pleased to read this.

There was a lot of discussion in this forum about who (owners or current players) cared most about the retired players. That argument probably won't be resolved.

... but at least the retired players, many of them anyway, will receive additional resources.