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| 13th December, 2008 - 4:40 pm | ESPN - A former NFL player's wife, who was shut out of a meeting this week involving commissioner Roger Goodell, says limiting the entitlement discussion to former players is wrong.
Eleanor Perfetto, the wife of Ralph Wenzel, a backup guard with the Steelers and Chargers from 1966 to 1973, told The New York Times she arrived to a Bethesda, Md., hotel Thursday to plead her case with the commissioner after being told in an e-mail that the meeting was for former players only.
"We wives are the voice of players with dementia, because they can't speak for themselves," Perfetto told The Times. "They are only allowing players healthy enough to attend. That means they're getting a very slanted view of what it's like out there."
Wenzel suffers from degenerative dementia, a condition often the result of head injuries. [READ] |
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