NFL labor no 2011 season?

**Bobber** · 03-12-2011, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by ISUFan22

I firmly believe there will still be NFL football this season. The NFL won't make the same mistake baseball did.

Baseball? Football has been through this before....

**ISUFan22** · 03-12-2011, 09:09 PM

Originally Posted by Bobber

Baseball? Football has been through this before....

I am aware. However, baseball more recent. The NFL is a much bigger animal than it was and far exceeds that of baseball.

**Wesley** · 03-12-2011, 09:59 PM

Arena football here we come.

Go Nighthawks also.

**LindenCy** · 03-12-2011, 10:06 PM

I would love to see a lost season if it shakes things up, but I don't think it will happen.

**swarthmoreCY** · 03-12-2011, 10:18 PM

The owners are the problem.
An NFL labor impasse primer - ESPN

**Wesley** · 03-12-2011, 10:23 PM

**Bobber** · 03-12-2011, 10:27 PM

Still think this will be good for the Big 12 when negotiating our new contract....

**AlleyAddict** · 03-12-2011, 11:32 PM

Another reason the Packers are the greatest sports franchise in the world: They're non-profit and don't have an owner begging for another billion dollars and locking players out to get it.

**Dopey** · 03-13-2011, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by AlleyAddict

Another reason the Packers are the greatest sports franchise in the world: They're non-profit and don't have an owner begging for another billion dollars and locking players out to get it.

So I guess they can just sit and play with themselves

**Mr Janny** · 03-14-2011, 02:57 PM

This seems to be going a little far. The players union (or "players trade association" I should say) isn't going to win to many sympathy points for this move.

Sources: NFLPA tells players to boycott draft - ESPN

**Wesley** · 03-14-2011, 02:59 PM

THey might not find $ 9B when the lockout is over.

**CloneIce** · 03-14-2011, 03:07 PM

Originally Posted by Bobber

You know I really don't care. Billionares fighting with Millionares just doesn't give me much sympathy. The whole league is overpriced at all levels the way it is.

Yeah, there's not really a good guy in this fight. Neither are going to get much sympathy with the economy the way it for normal middle class Americans.

But they will get it worked out before next season.

**jdoggivjc** · 03-14-2011, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by Mr Janny

This seems to be going a little far. The players union (or "players trade association" I should say) isn't going to win to many sympathy points for this move.

Sources: NFLPA tells players to boycott draft - ESPN

I sympathize their want for long-term health care after retirement, especially considering these guys destroy their bodies so their owners can make hundreds of millions of dollars off of them, as well as sympathize that the owners want to expand the season to 18 games, which would further expose them to devastating injury without further compensation. And I also understand their complaint that the NFL owners "just aren't making enough money" when they won't show the union their complete books.

That being said, as has often been said, overall I just have problems sympathizing when millionaires can't agree with billionaires on how to "fairly" split up tens of billions of dollars.