Per Chris Mortensen, ESPN NFL insider.
Players union has filed decertification papers in Minneapolis court.
Peaceful renegotiation of new CBA is now a thing of the past. The courts will decide, and there may be no football this year.
Per Chris Mortensen, ESPN NFL insider.
Players union has filed decertification papers in Minneapolis court.
Peaceful renegotiation of new CBA is now a thing of the past. The courts will decide, and there may be no football this year.
Well, you paint it as if there has been a whole lot of people taking up for the players here. But, including myself, I count four people taking the players' side in this thread.
Including you, I am counting twelve on the owners side. (Claiming to be in the middle, but aiming far more criticism at the players for "balance" puts you in this category.)
Yep. Those who stand with the players are a serious minority around here.
This fight was chosen by the owners, when they opted out of the previous CBA, and they have been planning to cheat for a couple of years, with the TV money.
If they get punched in the mouth, or if they get hit with a low blow, they started this fight. They chose it. I won't be real sympathetic to their "plight".
And, if they cost me my NFL enjoyment, I will blame the guys who chose to do this.
I do not believe that you are being as fair as you think. I see you stand up to any post defending the players. But I do not see you standing up to any posts defending the owners.
This isn't a negotiation, is a force demonstration. When the owners sign that TV contract and opted out of current CBA (both things together), and after that threatened with a lockout, they showed their strength.
What was the smartest thing for players to do? I can't figure it out, but I think was decertification, a force demonstration in the same level as the owners.
Who started this kind of "negotiation"? The owners did.
For the owners is a business, an exciting business, but business anyway.
For the players is a business, their only real business for most of them.
So they are doing business, but in a controversial way. Again, who dragged negotiation to this place? Facts shows that owners did.
Questions that I would like to know:
-What are college players winning participating in the draft? Without a CBA is far more interesting being a free agent that a top drafted player.
-Are all players free agents now? There isn't a CBA and they are locked out from their former teams.
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After a year when 18 of the 20 biggest TV events were NFL games, the Players were not asking for a raise.
The Owners asked Players to take ~30% less (18% less of their 55%-57%)? For basically no reason other than the Owners wanted to make more. They claimed possible downside to their enterprise, but wouldn't show the books in a meaningful way, and planned (for several years) to have access to the full TV contract money during the lockout. To mention nothing of the Owners asking the Players to play 2 more games.
And did you know the Players get $400 each for Preseason games and none of the savings is pass on to you? That's right, it's all just extra cash for the Owners... your full-priced parking, your full-priced beer, None of that major fan complaint is at the Players feet.
The result is, the courts will decide.
Just as Courts already decided the Owners weren't bargaining in good faith, and their TV Contract money will be held up, to the Court it will be clear the Owners are being greedy, as the Players did not ask for a raise. It's unclear how long it will take, but College Football is a lot of fun.
I've not done all the research & numbers as thoroughly as many of you posting in this thread. Besides, I hate math in depth, haha. However, if it is accurate that the owners drew first blood manipulating & scamming TV contract money...then one would think the owners would wisely want this lockout to end prior to a court discovering their questionable integrity. The deeper the courts go for evidence, the more the public will be made aware through mass media, of information the owners prefer not be public knowledge.
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I didn't see a new thread for this, but figured it would be added soon. So here it is, until then...
Retired players file antitrust suit against NFL - NFL - Yahoo! Sports
The plaintiffs include Priest Holmes.
Wow!!! Retired players kicking owners in the...
...draft. At least is a smart legal move. I hope that this makes lockout ends.
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Dont count me as being "on anyones side" Im on the fans side...the ones who lose in all of this. Regardless of what they are arguing about, its the fans who will lose. If there is a lockout, the millionaires will remain millionaires, we however, will not have football. I think they are all far too greedy. The only side I am taking is the side of the fans!!
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