Retired NFL players targeting Madden, EA

Instead, the former Cleveland Browns halfback, most recently known for his role in organizing a group of NFL players who won a $28.1 million judgment against the National Football League Players Association last year, was sounding the horn for continued legal action. In a post to fellow NFL retiree Dave Pear's blog, Parrish said that the class of retired players he heads plans to file a new suit against John Madden as well as Electronic Arts over royalty rates related to the use of player names and likenesses in Madden NFL games.

"The retired NFL players who were used in Madden EA video games will be suing Madden and EA for using us in those games without compensating us," Parrish wrote. "Madden’s agent Sandy Montag boasts he and Madden collected over $100,000,000 in royalties while paying the retired NFL players used in those games absolutely nothing."

Currently, the NFLPA is appealing the Ninth Circuit US District Court of Appeals' decision from January, which upheld a lower court's original award of $28.1 million. However, according to Parrish, "Irregularities in the trial may even bring about a retrial that will allow the award to be in the $100+ million range where it should have been instead of only $28.1 million."

Parrish also called on the 2,062 retired players who opted in to the lawsuit to leave $1,000 of their estimated $13,000 individual awards in "a litigation war chest," which will be used to help finance further litigation in the interest of retired players' rights.