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NFL owners opt-out of labor agreement - 5/20/2008 2:55:58 PM

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NFL owners voted unanimously to opt-out of the labor agreement (Collective Bargaining Agreement) with the players union.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080520/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_nfl_labor;_ylt=An46KgZs25t5A3j14mBC8U.s0NUE

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RE: NFL owners opt-out of labor agreement - 5/20/2008 3:17:22 PM

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Is that good, or bad?

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RE: NFL owners opt-out of labor agreement - 5/20/2008 5:33:28 PM

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Not sure yet...

It means if they dont reach a labor agreement by March 2010, there may be talks of a strike. Considering how much time they have to negotiate, and considering how good the sport is doing right now financially, any type of stoppage would most likely hurt the sport similar to how baseball was hurt back in the mid-1990s. Both sides (owners and players) are pointing and calling each other greedy. So that's usually how these things start.

The issues have to deal with rookie contracts and revenue sharing.

With no agreement in place, the salary cap would also expire in 2010. Therefore 2010 would be an uncapped year meaning the very rich teams (like Dallas or Washington) can go out and buy every big star on the market kind of like what the Yankees do in baseball. So it is in the interest of the small-market teams to keep the cap.

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RE: NFL owners opt-out of labor agreement - 5/20/2008 6:15:07 PM

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Since I believe that most professional sports in America overpay their players anyway, I hope they do go on strike. People need to see millionaires walking the streets with picket signs because thay didn't get their way. It'll suck for some of the newer players but didn't they go to college to learn something USEFUL?

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RE: NFL owners opt-out of labor agreement - 5/20/2008 6:18:21 PM

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didn't they go to college to learn something USEFUL?

Not everyone shares your opinion of what is useful. The NFL is a huge, highly successful business. It's entertainment and sports money-making. The owners/staff/players are making those salaries because that is what the market will bear.

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RE: NFL owners opt-out of labor agreement - 5/20/2008 6:21:33 PM

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there may be talks of a strike.

Oh my god the horror! Seriously, wouldn't chance be a fine thing

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RE: NFL owners opt-out of labor agreement - 5/20/2008 6:28:38 PM

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And the players are supposed to have other skills to fall back upon. Thats what I mean by useful: skills that can be used to make a living in case injury or other circumstances forces them to have to live like most of the rest of us.

Don't get me wrong, I sometimes enjoy watching these guys play. If they can't make it on the salaries they have now, they can't make it. I can not feel any synpathy for someone going on strike when he has a multmillion dollar contract to chase a ball. If they don't get control of it soon, it will be more than the market can bear. And, it was only a few short years ago that a number of NFL teams were losing money.

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RE: NFL owners opt-out of labor agreement - 5/21/2008 2:23:40 PM

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And the players are supposed to have other skills to fall back upon. Thats what I mean by useful: skills that can be used to make a living in case injury or other circumstances forces them to have to live like most of the rest of us.

Name one other profession (outside of sports) that a person practices and sacrifices for 18 years (Pop Warner through College) without being financially compensated to get the small chance of having a 10-15 year career.
Then consider the salary in those terms....not so much when you consider it that way?

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