Thank you. I’d suggest you share your thoughts on that issue with via the “send feedback” e-mail. Can’t tell you how many of PFT’s most intelligent, rational commenters have made similar complaints via posts that have somehow gotten through here or on other sites. But when I complain the sense is that it’s my imagination or I’m the only one who cares about those inexplicable decisions. If more people share their experiences, it might make a difference.

Spectacular response. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

What’s killing me is that I have had multiple posts censored on this site for silly things like criticizing their writers by name. Yet horribly racist posts like the one you responded to are allowed to stand.

BUT, if they decertify, isn’t DE SMITH out of a job since the union doesn’t exist anymore?!?!?!?!?

DECERTIFY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Will someone please go to DC and hurt this weak little man~!?~!?~?~?~?

What a rediculous comment, on so many levels. He was UNANIMOUSLY voted by the players reps, 32-0, and beat out 3 very strong opponents, not to mention he was one of the most successful litigators in the country. But he’s black, so you find him undeserving. Sickening.

Thank you for your service and stay safe.

Thanks for the dose of perspective.

Ummmm…….you know who “The Court” is in this case?

The Honorable Judge David Doty, who has never once ruled against the players.

If decertification moves forward The players will file suit on Monday and ask for an injunction against a lockout on Tuesday. By the end of next week, the league will be forced to resume operations while their appeal is heard, which would take months. Meanwhile, business as usual.

This is what happens when undeserving black people are put into a position of power, they are a culture of dysfunction and excuses. With this loser in control nothing will ever get done.

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How exactly is he an “undeserving” black man put into a position of power? He’s a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and currently teaches trial advocacy there, and a George Washington and American University. He’s a former assistant U.S. Attorney and was a trial attorney and litigation partner at two major D.C. firms. The man was unanimously elected to the NFLPA position on first ballot.

Please go away and take your racist thumbs-up followers with you. Don’t forget your attack dogs and water hoses. America doesn’t need your kind anymore.

Do you honestly expect anyone to believe that the team you have spent your whole life rooting for will take the field on a Sunday next fall, and you won’t be watching? Please.

The NFL has spent the last 20 years kicking you in the nads over and over and over again, and you haven’t raised a finger to stop them.

Don’t you know that both sides know this? Don’t you know that they know that the only constant in this whole mess is that whenever they decide to play, you’ll be there?

You’re not going anywhere and you know it.

And for all of you people who think decertification equals no football, get a clue.

If the union decertifies and the league attempts to lock them out, the NFLPA runs to Judge Doty and gets an injunction that requires the league to continue operations.

In fact, the union decertifying may be the only chance we have for football this season.

I thought you said “We won’t let you down” ?

I’m looking forward to never hearing your name again.

I agree that this has been his (De Smith’s) plan all along.

An average NFL career is 3.5 years. Congratulations fellas, a good % of you just lost 29% of your career earnings!!!

Feel free to thank De Smith for that as well.

Let them de-certify, but then the NLRB or whoever the hell has jurisdiction over them should not let them re-certify … Bye Bye Union … Bye Bye De Smith.

I’d be willing to bet that 75% of these players CANNOT SURVIVE financially without the 2011 season.

I’d also be willing to place another bet that were it not for the NFL those same 75% would be speaking into a headset asking people in the drive thru lane if they want to SUPERSIZE that?

If the players decert its because the owners are going to lock them out. They woul be doing because the owners won’t budge. Remember this is about a LOCK OUT not a strike.

If these greedy billionaire owners would have just excepted a rookie wage scale and stop Al davis and others from handing out insane contracts that raise the bar for everyone else we wouldn’t have this problem. The owners can not handle them selves then blame the players.

1) Convinced that the NFLPA will lose badly in court

2) Angry with the NFLPA for going to court

If you hate the union, shouldn’t you be HAPPY they’re going to court?

Because you’re all so convinced that they’ll lose?

Oh, I forgot, you are operating off 100% emotion.

maybe you should remind them. It’s all so simple, right?

Maybe you should go back to your coloring books and Wiggles dvd’s.

But I am a bigger fan of football.

If these two parties can’t figure out how to divide up the money machine that the NFL has become, well then I certainly want to be no fan of it.

Since the announcement that the owners were going to exit out of the deal, I have canceled my NFL ticket, I stopped all spending on any NFL merchandise (yes even in this Superbowl run).

If the union pushed the button on de-certification, I will abandon my support for this league as a whole.

I am just one person and that probably means little to the folks on both sides of the table.. but I can only control what I can control.

Which is to quit spending any money in their direction as a whole.

I understand that you have to talk and set the edge so to speak to push forward.. but if either of these two parties go to their “nuclear” option, I as a fan will follow suit.

I will return to the grass roots version of football.. where it is more pure and less greedy than the NFL version.

BTW.. this option for the PA may win them this little fight through litigation.. but it will only cripple the good of the the entire member base as a whole in the long run. Each player will be out for themselves and the players will become divided.. those with juice in the fan base and those that don’t bring home profit margins to the owners.

Can you imagine the how flooded the court system will become year after year with litigation by ever player that has a gripe.

The thing is, as soon as they decertify, it can’t be a lockout, since there will be no union to lock out.

What the owners can do, as someone else said, is declare an impasse, imnpose their last best offer, and then it will be down to the players, who then will be non union contract players.

If his game was to get the draft decalred illegal, or FA declared illegal, well, at least in the last CBA, Doty never declared either of them illegal.

I think he’s leading the players down the wrong path and they’ll find that out in the end.

Oh, and the owner’s are no better, whining and complaining that they aren’t making as much money, but refuse to prove it. These guys are going the way of the MLB, NHL and soon to be NBA.

But on a brighter note, De, I dig that hat.