Union, NFL now fighting over survivor benefits

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. CBSSports.com 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.

The original CBA called for the cost to be split 51 percent by the NFL and 49 percent by the players. Now, both sides are basically asking the other to pay the fund wholly.

And so there is yet another thing the union and NFL are fighting over.

As I've said before, the adversarial relationship is a good thing. But it does seem some things should be pretty simple to solve.

Like this issue.

(source CBS Sports -- Mike Freeman)

Posted by Necesitamos Mas Football on 12:22 p. m.. Filed under CBA , nfl player , noticias , principal . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0