NFL owners say they’ll continue to support retirees during lockout
New York, NY, United States (AHN Sports) – NFL owners have indicated assurance to retirees regarding their commitment to continue to fund pensions and benefits for retired players during the lockout.
Green Bay Packers president Mark Murphy and Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson, who are on the owners’ labor committee, wrote Monday to NFL retirees detailing components of its previous offer which the league made to the union during negotiations last month.
Murphy and Richardson, both former NFL players, indicated in their letter that “the players’ union wasn’t listening” to the NFL’s “significant offers that would have a measurable impact on the people who made football great.”
Apart from assuring about 7,000 vested veterans who are concerned that the lockout could jeopardize retirement benefits subsidized by the league, the letter also disputed claims by NFLPA.
A statement by NFLPA chief DeMaurice Smith on WFAN indicated that owners did not contribute to former player pensions, USA TODAY reported.
League management council members Murphy and Richardson refuted the claim with their own data, stating NFL owners made $2.7 billion contribution to the funding of benefit plans for current and former players in the past 10 years.
They also contend that on March 30, nearly $180 million was paid by owners to fund benefits for 2010.
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