Bad News,,It doesnt look good

[Wacko4Flacco61 355]

We might not have a season this year.

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=Arixb30ZKO9GqkccrM7.M8xDubYF?slug=ap-nfllabor

[oochymp 2,393]

there's some interesting stuff in that article, tells you a little bit about what the players wanted that the owners' offer didn't give

They dispute the owners’ depiction of their last-minute offer made last Friday. They say it wasn’t close to acceptable because it would have made salaries a fixed cost and eliminated the players’ chance to share in higher-than-projected revenue growth. They say the proposal would cut players’ take of more than $9 billion in annual revenues from 50 percent to 45 percent in the first year of a new contract.

Smith said he does not consider Goodell’s letter—e-mailed to all active players Thursday—an attempt to engage in good-faith negotiations. The league, he said, could attempt to restart talks by writing, instead, to lawyers representing the players now that the union has dissolved.

 

“Let’s not kid ourselves. Jeff Pash … knows that class counsel can always engage in discussions with counsel for the National Football League to have discussions relating to a settlement,†Smith said. “He knows what letter should have been sent.â€

Pete Kendall (permanent player rep for the NFLPA) said that throughout negotiations, the players’ chance to share in increased revenues had been a key component of how to divide the NFL’s yearly take of more than $9 billion, a figure both sides expect to continue to increase. He said the negotiations, until talks stopped on the 16th day of federal mediation, always revolved around the premise that if the rise in league revenues exceeded a certain percentage each year, players would get a cut.

[DonovanMcnabb for H.O.F 2,241]

it's so sad that people keep pointing the finger at De Smith like he's the only problem in this. Goodell and Pash are just as much to blame. The last deal sounded fair only to the owners, the players didn't like it, or else this wouldn't be going to court right now.

 

That last deal that came from the owners and the NFL before the lockout was put into action was a complete PR move... That's all De Smith and Goodell/Pash have been playing, a propaganda game with the fans to make one another seem like the real bad guys in this, and Goodell has somehow been winning. Even this email thing, it's all PR stuff to make one side seem like they are doing everything possible to get a deal done. The owners have known all along that nothing will probably happen until they show the books.

 

This whole thing is getting past ridiculous. The worst part about this is that none of the two sides seem to be able to come to an agreement. At all.

[FSUViking 184]

Stop with the "sky is falling" shit. Jesus....you could post a new article every god damn hour saying it's never gonna end....wait, now it looks good...wait, now it's looks bad again.....

[AL_Royalty 489]

Goodell and Pash are just as much to blame.

 

This whole thing is getting past ridiculous. The worst part about this is that none of the two sides seem to be able to come to an agreement. At all.

De Smith sucks, Goodell and Pash suck, the players suck: that about covers it from my end. Everyone is lying and the other side isn't telling the truth.

 

Until someone comes out and takes some kind of responsibility, I won't trust another word that comes from either side ever again. They've all become politicians.