The recent developments in labor talks between the NFL's owners and players may have been sparked by an unknown agreement from 2010. A little more than a year ago, executive director of the NFL Players Association DeMaurice Smith received approval from the executive committee to secure insurance that would pay each player roughly $200,000 if there were no football in 2011. Smith disclosed the fund to only a handful of people outside of the executive committee. "However with negotiations seemingly at a standstill late Wednesday night, the decision was made to play one of their aces in the hole," writes Jim Trotter of Sports Illustrated. "So in the relative quiet of the sides' New York City bargaining room the next morning, Baltimore Ravens cornerback Domonique Foxworth informed the owners of the previously secret lockout fund."