Jeff Nixon on How the Current NFLPA Pension Plan Works at the First Independent Retired Football Players Summit in Las Vegas May 2009.

4. Credited Season in Plan Year Benefit Credit Before 1982 $250 1982 through 1992 $255 1993 and 1994 $265 1995 and 1996 $315 1997 $365 1998 through the expiration of Plan $470

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13. "There are some guys out there that have made bad business decisions. They've had a couple divorces and they're making payments to this place and that place. And that's why they don't have money. And they're coming to us to basically say, 'Please make up for my bad judgment.' In that case, that's not our fault as players.”

14. “ Not all retired players support our Union. I was asked why and I can only speculate…Do they have their own individual agendas? Are they selfish or greedy like the NFL owners who say they want to take back from the players. Do they work for the NFL? Or… are they depressed ex-players who were kicked in the head as a player and then kicked to the side of the road after their careers ended?, now old and frustrated looking at this great game they helped to build feeling nobody cares and that the world has passed them by.”

15. “ I look at this problem that’s facing some of the retired players of this game, it’s a big problem. It’s a problem that shouldn’t exist because of the financial success of the league today. It’s important as we go forward to remember those who built this game up, and I think I speak for a lot of current players, and I think for all current players, whether they know it or not, the game isn’t as big and successful as it is today because we showed up. It’s obviously taken a long time, generations to get to this point.”