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You guys are gonna get a kick out of this. About one month and a half ago, I received at my precise address, a letter addressed to "Otis Hudson" from an organization called "NFL Alumni." I don't know why it came to my address but, of course, I never opened it.
I first contacted the organization and only spoke to the sole staffer there at the time, a secretary, who knew nothing. I told her the details and she promised to have the only other employee, her boss, get back to me. I explained to her that there was no reason for this letter to have come to me. He never called back.
Being dissatisfied with the answer I googled Otis Hudson and found out that he had been with the Cincinnati Bengals but had been cut. The Bengals organization told me to just send that letter on to them.
My female cousin is the widow of one Frank Buncom, who died in 1969. Frank had played the Chargers and then for the Bengals when he died during the regular season. (Ironically, the last conversation we had was him telling me what a dangerous game pro football was.)
Recently, there was a class action involving NFL injuries and I submitted a claim on behalf of Frank and his descendants.
Well, I thought this was the genesis of the mixup and forgot about it.
However, today, I received a letter, in MY name, sent by the same organization, asking me to join and describing the wonderful benefits.
Shows I was right about how second rate that organization was.
The only use they made of my phone call was not to call me back about Otis Hudson, but to put MY NAME on the address (mine) they had for him and assume that I was an ex-NFL player.