NFL: Safest Job in The World
By Wink
Formerly fierce Conrad Dobler has paid a terrible price for choosing the NFL as a career. No longer a physical specimen (in the positive sense), today he is 90% disabled, having suffered through numerous operations to repair his battered body. He has had too many surgeries to count, but let us just begin by noting his nine knee surgeries.
His medical issues have no end, and he is still in need of further surgeries. Along with countless other disabled NFL veterans, he has been unable to gain disability assistance from the NFL.
The NFL fights tooth and nail to avoid making disability payments to any retired player.
According to recent comments by Dobler, there are some 9000 living retired NFL players, and 125 have qualified for NFL disability payments. One-hundred and twenty five.
Dobler sarcastically concludes that the NFL must be the ‘safest industry’ anywhere in the world.
I will tell you what the NFL really is, it is a collection of the most heartless bastards anywhere.
Does the NFL have financial problems?
At the Super Bowl this year Queen Latifah will sing ‘God Bless America’ and Carrie Underwood will sing the national anthem. The Who will perform at half, a spot in recent years filled by no-names like Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones.
Did they all perform just for free tickets to the game? I guess there must be a little money involved. How can the NFL afford that?
It is the richest sports league on the planet, with multi-billion dollar TV contracts and creative ‘rights fees’ that require season ticket holders to pay an additional charge, not for tickets, but for the right to buy tickets. So, you pay the fee, and THEN you pay the cost of the tickets. (My understanding is that this creative ploy was invented by the Dallas Cowboys many years ago.)
Think the players are ‘overpaid fat boys?’ You can ignore all of those salaries they trump up.
Sometimes you hear a player signed a five year contract for $10 million or some such. Most players never collect those amounts. While salaries for baseball and NBA players are mostly guaranteed, NFL paychecks end when you are cut from the team.
You can get cut for underperforming, and you can get cut for being injured.
Being cut for being injured will NOT qualify you for disability thru the NFL. Almost nothing will qualify you for disability with the NFL.
C’mon NFL, start sharing the wealth with those who made you all rich. The players. But especially with the players who have been physically disabled by the brutally crushing nature of your sport.
Conrad Dobler is 90% disabled and you argue it has ‘nothing to do with football’? Your high-powered lawyers make that same argument against every disabled player. Pathetic.
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