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NFL Lockout Lifted, Players to Vote on Settlement This Week
NFL players, who have been locked out since March 11, will return to work starting this week after the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) Executive Board and the 32 team representatives voted to approve the terms of a settlement with the owners.
As players report to team facilities this week, they will vote on the settlement, along with a vote to recertify the NFLPA as a union. The NFLPA renounced its status as a union in March to take legal anti-trust action against the owners’ lockout.
Also yesterday, the NFLPA Executive Board voted to recommend a settlement in the anti-trust suit (Brady et al v. NFL) against the league by 10 players. NFLPA President Kevin Mawae says the negotiations have “been a long road for everyone involved.”
While it is not yet over, the diligence demonstrated by active and former players speaks volumes to their dedication to reaching a fair deal. This settlement is an essential component to what will be a long-term agreement benefitting players, owners and fans.
Speaking to reporters, NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith said:
I know it has been a very long process since the day we stood here that night in March, but our guys stood together when nobody thought we would. And football is back because of it.
Detailed terms of the 10-year agreement were not released today, but Smith said the agreement covered a number of aspects, including safety issues and pensions.
The final process for negotiating the new collective bargaining agreement will begin after the NFLPA recertifies as a union. Benefits and health care, handling of grievances and the substance-abuse policy are all things that players will negotiate after they reform as a union.
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Professional football has become such a moneyed situation that is should be discontinued fir about 5 years then start all over again with a new batch of players and owners.
Some players are assholes because they get hit in the head so often, or can’t deal with the fame.
All owners are assholes. They were born that way.
Maybe our society pays too much attention to games like this, but for the time being, it makes me happy to see NFL’s revenues going more to players and less to owners.
(not to mention the fact that the medical concessions were absolutely necessary. Too many lose their health for good in this game.)
while the nfl and the pa have settled it looks more and more like david stern and some owners in the nba want to bust the union
It is sdfficult to symiphy with people makin over a million dallors,
but the only way whorker who make less is to help the workers who
make more. Sound silly, but it worker. In solidarity.
This is why we have not had a Super Bowl in two decades. It is why Eric Dickerson was benched by two teams because Eric wanted to play football and was headed to breaking football records! Dickerson would not lose a game when he was told to, which is why the Broncos “went” to the Super Bowl twice in a row!
This whole “sports” “industry” thing is a scam. The franchises created the high player salaries, the franchises create the statistics that ignoramus sports fans vomit in repetition without aknowledging that it is the League and the Franchise and the managers and the coaches who create the venue for the players’ highly-controlled stats. Football players are gneuine athletes… but they are also the highest-paid actors in the world, as football is the easiest sport to stage a win or a loss in! Why do you think the Vikings lost 0 to 60 in a play-off game two decades ago?
This lock-out is more of the same fantasy. And the League and the owners don’t care how much disappointed fans and supporting commmercial entities are hurt by all of this!