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2009 Independent Retired PlayersSummit & Conference
 Presented by
The Independent Advocates For Retired NFL Players
 In Association with
&
 BACKGROUND INFORMATION PACKET 
May 29-31, 2009South Point Hotel, Casino, SpaLas Vegas, Nevada
 
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121 Receive Disability Benefits-Maybe by Bernie Parrish
The “Truth Squad” says I erred by only reporting the 121 disability recipients listed on theSupplemental Disability Plan. The “Truth Squad” says I
“erred”, I “erred”…
really.
 
There is no tax, or any other reports on the number of disability recipients. The mostprominent numbers are the phony ones that come from the NFLPA and NFLPA attorney DougEll in perjured testimony to Congress. The auditors of the retirement and disability plan, theBert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Retirement Plan do not list the number of beneficiaries covered, orany amount, not $20 million or any other amount paid to disabled beneficiaries. No number ofretirement beneficiaries or disabled beneficiaries is listed in their strange incomplete audit,
only the total “Benefits Payments” are listed at $53,332,266 for 2006, $50,581,207 for 2005, and
$49,030,378 for 2004. No number of retirement beneficiaries is listed in any Bert Bell/PeteRozelle NFL Retirement Plan audit by Abrams, Foster, Nole, & Williams, P.A. And no number
of disabled recipients is listed in the Abram’s audits, ever.Dennis Curran, Greg Aiello, Harold Henderson, Roger Goodell, Carl Francis and Lanny Davis’“Truth Squad” all scatter self serving claims of $20 mil
lion or just under $20 million a year ispaid to 90, 106, 121, 130, 284, 317, or 428 disabled NFL players, only 4 of whom are disabledwith concussion or brain injuries out of the over 13,000 living who have played in the NFL.
The Abram’s audit doesn’t ci
te or even mention $20 million of disability benefits, or any of thenumbers strewed about by the NFL propagandist, let alone who it is actually supposed to be
paid to. I believe we have an action against Abram’s et al for the piece of _____ they call a“Financial Statement and Independent Auditors Report.” We didn’t get an audit; we got
another NFL propaganda piece.
The Employers (the Clubs) fund the retirement plan, not thecurrent players:
 
Current players do not contribute any of their salaries to the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL PlayerBenefit Plan. Form 5500 for
2004
shows an Amount paid by employer column 3(b) $59,436,976column 3(c) Amount paid by employees
None
(That would be the current players paid
$0
),Form 5500 Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan
2005
Page2 Column 3(b) Amountpaid by employer $64,769,237 3(c) Amount paid by employees
None
(That would be thecurrent players paid
$0
), Form 5500 Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan
2006
 shows the same accounting, Employer Contribution 3(b) $67,938,458 and column 3(c)Employee contribution
None
(That would be the current players paid
$0
).
Dennis Curran, Senior Vice President of the NFL told a Congressional committee that “In 2006
alone,
the Clubs
contributed $126 mil
lion to the Retirement Plan.” The “Clubs” are not the
 
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“current player’s salaries,” even though the $126 million is pure fiction. How can the IRS
report say employer contribution $67,938,458, and the NFL VP responsible for the accuracy ofthe IRS report say the Clubs contribution was $126 million for 2006? Somebody is not telling
the government or the public the truth. How about that “Truth Squad”?
 
Both the IRS tax forms and the NFL Vice President who is over the plan, said “the Employers
-
the Clubs” al
one fund the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan. Any reasonableperson, including a Congressman or Senator must conclude that either the Tax forms have
 been falsified and NFL VP Dennis Curran lied to Congress, or the “Truth Squad” and all w
ho
claim the current players contribute a portion of their salaries to fund “the” retirement plan are
lying.
 
Baseball has had only one player retirement plan from the beginning. They didn’t attempt to
screw their older players by diverting money into 2
nd
Career, and other splinter plans thatinclude only most recent players and exclude the older players. Now the NBA has acted andimproved their retirement plan to a fairer level. Only the NFL owners are making a concertedeffort to deny the benefits intended when the retirement plan was established, based on the
foundation asserted by Pete Rozelle that “It should be obvious to all players that the amount of
the benefit payments and the possibility of later including retroactive service prior to the 1959season, are entirely dependent upon one basic factor
namely,
adopting measures to producethe highest possible income for the Benefit Plan
.”
'Am I An Addict? Yes' 
By JOE HENDERSON, The Tampa TribunePublished: December 31, 2007Updated: 12/30/2007 11:22 pmTAMPA - Around a table at Mike Ditka's restaurant in Chicago, three retired players from the NationalFootball League met for dinner a couple of months ago.Mercury Morris, Dave Pear and Tim Harris played for years in the NFL. Pear was the first Tampa BayBuccaneer selected to the Pro Bowl. Morris was a standout running back for the Miami Dolphins, andHarris was a linebacker for Green Bay and two other teams.Although they were in town to publicize what they say is the league's indifferent attitude toward itsformer players, that night they unwittingly became symbols for another problem that has received littleattention. At least that's how it seemed to Jennifer Smith, whose organization - Gridiron Greats - workswith retired players in need."At one point, all three of them pulled out giant baggies, loaded with pain pills," she said. "They started
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