Ten retired National Football League Players (NFL) filed a class\u002Daction lawsuit against the league’s benefits plan, board of trustees and Commissioner Roger…
“These benefits are not a gift, these were bargained for, this is part of the deal, they are entitled to it,” Christopher Seeger, one of the lawyers representing the players, told reporters during a video news conference.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in an email to Reuters that the plan annually provides over $330 million to those who meet eligibility requirements developed after consultation with occupational, mental and physical health experts. “The NFL likes to pretend like they care about player safety, but it’s only when something big-time happens in a game they are like ‘oh yeah, we’ll fix this’,” said Smith.
While Goodell did not address the lawsuit directly on Wednesday during his annual Super Bowl news conference ahead of Sunday’s championship game, he did call the NFL’s benefits package “extraordinary”.
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