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With what is said to be the worst benefits of any professional sports league the NFL players are determined to make a difference by gathering to discuss a marketing initiative in a first time Independent Retired Players Summit.

“It’s not going to be a legal entity,” said Bob Grant, retired linebacker of the Baltimore Colts and Washington Redskins in the late 1960s and early ’70s. “It’s not going to be a situation where we’ve got somebody running around who’s president and trying to be a very important man. We want to keep it absolutely as democratic as we possibly can.

Coming on the same weekend as the NFLPA held Retired Players Convention ‘preventing’ NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith from being able to attend and participate in a chance for these retired players to ensure a better future for all NFL retirees.

Already the NFLP had been forced to pay $28 million in royalties from licensing fees to 2,062 retired players, the combined entity of the NFL Alumni and Forth and Goal known as NFL Alumni Association look to monetize retired NFL player names and likenesse, which would entail the use of NFL and individual team intellectual property rights. Thus allowing retired players to self promote and obtain incomes from their football careers after they have retired.

A simple, cost free,  request to the National Football League that, as you may remember, had been an ongoing battle for retire players who fought to recieve endorsments for their past uses in Video Games such as EA Sports Madden Football.