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Court Issues Ruling: NFL Lockout Is Legal
Several weeks ago the NFL and NFLPA went before the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and stated their case for why the NFL lockout is legal (NFL's argument) and why it is not legal (NFLPA's argument). After the oral arguments, the courts said they would issue a ruling in due time but encouraged...
NFL Lockout: League, NFLPA Confirm Meetings
It's been widely reported that officials from the NFL and NFLPA met in Chicago on Wednesday and again on Thursday to discuss the NFL lockout. We thought at one point that the two sides had gotten together on their own which could have provided us with some legitimate optimism that they were working...
Reason #1,844 Why The NFL Labor Strife Blows
Intrepid Strib reporter Judd Zulgad passes along some good info from coach Leslie Frazier and erstwhile NFL reporter Peter King, and in normal times, they'd have me fairly excited. The fact that I used the words 'intrepid' and 'erstwhile' describing two different people in the same sentence means I...
A Look Back at the 1987 Chicago 'Spare' Bears
On April 6th a judge in Minnesota will decide if the NFL owners can lockout their players. If the owners are allowed to lockout the players, there will be no football until an agreement can be reached between the two sides in this battle between millionaires and billionaires. In 1987, the last...
NFL Owners Opt Out of Collective Bargaining Agreement
The NFL owners unanimously voted to opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement today. They are sad because they aren't making enough money. That is probably the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. They are upset because the players receive 60% of the revenues. Note to the...
NFL Owners Opt Out of CBA
NFL Owners did what we were all expecting them to do this morning by voting to shorten the current Collective Bargaining Agreement from 2013 to 2011. So what does it mean for the future of the NFL? I'm, honestly, not well versed in the specifics of the CBA or negotiations between the players union...
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