Naive and Vain NFLPA Exec Committee Members Are Over their Heads

Exclusively for Executive Committee members, not for the Player Reps
DID YOU KNOW YOU ARE PAYING UPSHAW OVER

$10.4 MILLION PLUS DEFERRED COMPENSATION OF

$10 MILLION FOR A TOTAL OF $20,400,000 UNLESS YOU FIRE HIM FOR JUST CAUSE

I disagree with Forbes average NFL player salary figure of $1.6 million. I believe it is in fact less than $1 million. The owners are pulling Upshaw’s puppet strings and you brilliant executives are paying him an outrageous $10.4+million a year for being in the owner’s pocket. ESPN’s Chris Mortenson lied again this week about Upshaw’s compensation saying he makes $4 million a year. Mortenson, in his role as another ESPN owners shill, is trying to save their puppets rear to hold the cabal together. Is ESPN Mortenson a Tom Condon-CAA client? Is Robert Smith a Condon-CAA client? Trace Armstrong is and so is Matt Stover so is Upshaw. NFLPA agent/financial planner Tom Condon is the Tony Soprono, Upshaw the underboss that ESPN-Kansas City Star writer Jason Whitlock said he was last year. CAA represents Katie Curic wouldn’t it be interesting if CAA represents Goodell’s TV announcer wife Jane Skinner? (still checking CAA client lists)

Upshaw et al plays you Executive Committee members for adolescent fools.

From your NFLPA 2007 LM2 Report on the last page 800+ it says: “During the year ended February 28, 2007, the NFLPA and Players Inc entered into a new employment contracts with the Executive Director and Chairman, respectively, that employs him for the period of January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2010. The employment agreements stipulate bonuses of $3,600,000 and $2,400,000 from the NFLPA to the Executive Director and from Players Inc to the (Upshaw’s) Grantor Trust, respectively, described below during the year ended February 28, 2007. The bonus amount paid during the year ended February 28, 2007 from the NFLPA is included in Schedule 11, Column (D). The employment contract with Players Inc established a Grantor Trust, which will be funded on an annual basis with the Players Inc salary and bonus amounts. The Grantor Trust assets are included in investments on Schedule 5 and the liability is included in deferred compensation on Schedule 5 and the liability is included in deferred compensation on Schedule 10, Other Liabilities. Upshaw’s compensation is $4,405,241 plus $3,600,000 plus $2,400,000 equals $10,405,241 for 2007. Do you know you Executives are paying Upshaw $10,405,241 plus whatever Troy Vincent gave him in “secret sideletters” plus whatever Upshaw has coming out of the $14,501,843 of NFLPA deferred compensation? Doug Allen and his wife were paid over $1,900,000 of deferred compensation while Upshaw has always been compensated at approximately 5+ times what Doug Allen was paid therefore applying that ratio Upshaw has another $10,000,000 coming out of the $14,501,843. So it is reasonable to assume that Upshaw was screwing you brilliant business Executives for at least $20,405,241 for 2008.”

Can Kevin Mawae the new President of NFLPA read a balance sheet? Any balance sheet? No, well that fits the Executive Committee profile. Have you ten Executive Committee members ever hired a CPA firm to audit a company? Any company? How about 32 companies who don’t really want you to know what is in their books? Have any of you ever written a million dollar check to pay a bill? Has Mawae or any of the ten members of the Executive Committee ever run a business or had any employees? I doubt that any of you Executives could run a lemon aide stand let alone a $200,000,000+ union and I doubt any of you could build 6 hotels a shopping center and 2 dormitories a medical building and Air Force office’rs quarters buildings and a sewage treatment plant for the government at one time. I have stated several times that I have had over 3,000 construction employees actually I’ve employed over 9,000 employees. I sent out over 1,920 W2 forms in one year. You Executive pretenders have more in common with the laborers I employed than the cost estimators, engineers or project managers who worked with me, yes I said worked “with me” in my company not “for me.” The difference between you guys and the laborers is the laborers have enough guts to strike. You guys are drinking Upshaw’s Kool Aide mixed especially for you by Upshaw’s star agent/financial advisor Tom Condon while Upshaw’s baby sitter Jeffery Kessler and the owners laugh all the way to the bank.

Tell them 60%, 60%, 60% they’ll believe you just say it over and over and get ESPN’s Chris Mortenson to repeat it a few dozen times and you’ll have everybody fooled.

Since you Executives hired this guy, to play with the unions money and all our retired players family’s retirement plan’s money and according to his own reports he has caused a $480,000,000 asset loss from 93% funding to 51.2% of $1.2 billion then each of you have cost us at least $48,000,000 each plus other losses. One strategy that has been suggested is to sue you Executive Committee members individually for the damages you have caused with your hiring practices plus punitive damages and do it one Executive Committee member at a time starting with the biggest contract, ability to pay or perhaps the biggest Upshaw advocate, biggest whatever… first.

All the new Goodell/Upshaw theatrics, saber rattling over an owner lockout, with Goodell saying “the CBA isn’t working” Upshaw says there will be a strike or lockout or a union desertification, the sky is falling, the sky is falling, keep me employed at $10.4+million a year…is nothing more than orchestrated PR melodrama, to scare you heroes to keep you in line, like the mushroom cloud if you don’t vote for Bush; and the owners are pushing to get Congress to look at the shiny object in this hand while they use Upshaw et al to help pick everyone’s pockets with the other hand, again. Congress is not going to go for it again. Upshaw’s luau is nearly over regardless of the Matt Stover (another Condon client) Vincent, Chris Mortenson con job to try to keep the union controlled by Condon-Upshaw Mafia and the owners in order to keep a Marvin Miller type from becoming the leader of the players union.

Doesn’t Groom Law Group’s website say the CBA is the basis of the NFL’s success since 1993, now Goodell says its “not working”?

The biggest problem you bright guys have now is that the Giants won the Super Bowl with the lowest payroll in the league, the lowest. That means the rest of you turkeys are overpaid, but of course if you stick with Upshaw none of the owners will notice. Run that fact around your brilliant little business minds see what you come up with. None of the Executive Committee members have ever seen a completed NFLPA LM2 union report or a Retirement Plan form 5500 or an NFL Tax form 990.
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