Congress getting in on the act
Many thought that the U.S. Congress’s involvement with the National Football League was going onto the back burner for a while. Well they were wrong as Congress has threaten their antitrust exemption.
Representative (D-California) Linda Sanchez is not happy with the NFL, or the NFLPA when it comes to taking care of retired players. The issue being the retired players concerns have. Those being access to disability payments, low pension payments, and the inability to get health care.
All three together have been equally hard to obtain. To get disability payments you would have to have a very strong case. For decent pension payments you have to wait till your about 60 years old. Health care expires after you been retired for three years. Also, most companies won’t take on football players, because they been beaten up, and eventually their bodies breakdown. Thus racking up huge bills.
It is about time that Congress has finally got into this. After all the Brian DeMarcos of the world need that as quickly as possible DeMarco has been homeless at one point.
For any single former player to go homelss, in a sport that generates six billion dollars, is utterly a HUGE disgrace.