Most investment/insurance vehicles like this have proscriptions in the case of suicide though. I know a pension I am part of has this as a caveat. It pays out nothing in the event of suicide.
Yeah I don't know the specifics of an NFL pension plant so I wouldn't know. Hopefully we'll get more details in the coming days or weeks. But this rumour came about because of the Boston local talk show called Toucher & Rich and apparently they had this law professor on there to try and explain what could be the legal repercussion of what he did.