Wilbur Marshall Not Doing Well

[freddyg12]

Originally Posted by Defensewins

Marshall: "I had a guaranteed contract and the Bears were suppose to pay $72,000 for 19 years. They stopped paying after 11. It's crazy. They re-negged on a guaranteed contract...I deferred my signing bonus to help them out. I took out a note lump sum and and they had to keep making payments on the note. They stopped making payments...The thing is, I had to put up collateral for this note. $600K."

I wonder what the Bears have to say about this?

I would guess that they would say his deal guaranteed him 11 years worth of payments IF he remained on the roster, etc. The article said that he sued the nfl & won after 11 years, but implied that pertained only to his filing for disability. I don't see how he would just let the Bears stop paying him w/out some legal action. My guess is that the Bears don't owe him a thing, and never have.