NFL & Union Fight Over Survivor Benefits
NEW YORK (CBS SPORTS) - The NFLPA is circulating a petition to its players which asks the NFL to pay in full the entire cost of providing benefits to widows and survivors of deceased NFL players. CBS Sports obtained a copy of the petition from former player Jeff Nixon.
The NFL, according to the petition letter, had agreed to fund 51 percent of the fund. It's an important thing. A very important thing. But the union says the NFL now wants to use player fine money to fund it. So whenever a player, say, is fined $10,000 for an illegal hit, that money would go to the fund.
There's a problem with this, players say. That would mean in essence players would be the ones almost entirely funding it. This would be unfair, they say.
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