Bernard Williams Reacts To Getting Cut By Eagles After Nearly 30 Years

In an NFL transaction that feels like it was taken from the movie Office Space, the Philadelphia Eagles released a player who had somehow been hidden on their roster for nearly 30 years.

Bernard Williams, a former safety who played one year for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1994 and is now 51 years old, revealed in an interview with InsideTheBirds.com that he was as surprised as anyone to find out that he was only released this week.

He believes that the move might have been the result of an NFL-related benefit that he applied for recently that was still eligible for since the EAgles retained his NFL rights after he moved to Canada to continue playing. 

“I was actually at work when a kid I coached in high school, Ventell Boulware -- a scout for the Packers -- called asked when was the last time I did anything with the NFL,” Williams said. “I told him I had just applied for some benefits recently, and he said, ‘Well your name just came across the [transaction] wire.’ I’m like, ‘For what?’ And he was like, ‘The Eagles released you.’ I had some kind of idea, but they never released me. And I always wondered what happened with that. When I went to Canada, the Eagles kept my rights through all of that. They never released my rights. But I had no idea that I was still on the roster 29 years later.”

Bernard Williams was suspended after his rookie season and never applied for reinstatement. He went on to play for the CFL, XFL and Arena Football League before calling it a career in 2006.

Hopefully the Eagles let him get his stapler back at least...