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“Supposedly no one knew it would fall out like this,” said Sylvia Mackey, whose husband, John Mackey, the Baltimore Colts’ Hall of Famer, died last July.

“How they didn’t know, I have no idea.”

Sylvia Mackey attended Super Bowl festivities in Indianapolis this year and raised her hand at the news conference of NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith. “What did we do wrong?” she asked.

In response, Smith defended the union and said the players pushed for the legacy fund in the first place.

“The people who fought for that benefit would never try to purposely exclude anyone,” Smith said. “We created a new benefit, and we are proud of it.”

In the four months that followed, Mackey had a difficult time getting answers. She works as a flight attendant and said the legacy fund money would be helpful. Both the NFLPA and the league office kept saying they were working to right a wrong, and Commissioner Roger Goodell personally called her to discuss the matter.

“The fight over it is just embarrassing,” Mackey said. “It’s shameful. It’s dragging us widows through the mud.”
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