And even if there is some sort of change, at one point the NFL claimed free agency would be bad for the product. Many didn’t want the leagues integrated in baseball. Both of these improved their sports.

But at least you have your loyal fans, proving that for many, ignorance is bliss

Greed played out in the news is so funny to watch.

Imagine any employed person, most of whom, have to break their backs daily for 40 yrs+, just to survive, demanding to see the total financial records of the buisness that employs them.

Imagine you have a buisness you created through your hard work, effort and money, being dictated to by a 1/2 illiterate “college grad”. that talks like he has marbles in his mouth !

If it weren’t for the born athleticism, most of these multi millionair “players” would be “inmates”. in fact, some still even to manage to become bolth… regardless!

The players didn’t opt out of the current CBA. The players didn’t lowball future revenue projections. The players didn’t dilly-dally for weeks, refusing to come to the negotiating table, ignoring player proposals, and dragging their feet in preparation for calling a bluff that wasn’t a bluff. The players didn’t ask for a deadline extension just so they could make a proposal that went backward. The players didn’t make a production about wanting to resume negotiations before the hearing date while ignoring the players’ invitation to resume negotiations.

I’m not inventing this stuff. This is what happened, whether the owners’ lackeys like it or not. If they’d get their butts back to the negotiating table like Vrabel asked, they could cut a deal before any of this antitrust stuff goes to court. If they don’t, it’s because the owners want to go to court.
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I’m not sure if I care to go into everything here but the only thing you are right about is that the owners opted out of the CBA. If they didn’t we’d be having this fight 2 years from now instead of now but we’d still be having the same fight so let’s get it over with.

Proof that the owners lowballed revenue projections, please? Mediation is often done through a mediator which means that there is only going to be limitted direct contact between both sides. Mediation which both sides agreed to.

Please tell us more about these player counter proposals that the owners ignored because all the press has been that the owners kept sending proposals and the players refused to counter. Give us some evidence to go with your blanket statements.

The players walked away from the negotiating table, not the owners. After a week of the players posturing in the press, Vrabel said let’s talk face to face. The owners said ok . Vrabel then took back his offer to meet with the owners but that’s the owners fault I guess. What have the players done to restart negotiations besides telling the owners that if they have anything to say to say it to their lawyers?

At this point, I think nothing will be solved until the court case is heard simply because the players think they have the owners on the ropes.

Cleveland, Jacksonville, Cincy, Buffalo, for example would not be able survive in an open market system for players. If college players would be free to sign anywhere for any amount of money, how long would it take before 30% or more of the NFL teams would become second class teams.

The NFL would have to adopt the “A” and “B” league system which exist with European football teams. Maybe have 20 A clubs, and 12 B league clubs. These could switch based upon success. Ask a brit for details.

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Named plaintiff Von Miller of the incoming draft class. How do you think he got his name on the complaint and what do you think his complaint is?

Help me, I’ve been brainwashed by the pro-player faction…….

I hope both of them breaks their legs.

Imagine what Dan Snyder, Jerry Jones and Al Davis would do if they could just hand out blank checks to the top 50 players every year? Fans would tune out in droves, and I’m sure the players know it.

For example, the dirty Packers trade Aaron Rodgers to my Vikings for a 7th round pick in 2012. The teams can agree ahead of time that if there is no draft next year, instead of the pick, the Vikings will send back all those purple #4 jerseys to Wisconsin to Packer fans can light them on fire and roast bratwurst over them.

Sounds like a fair trade to me, let’s do it!

It was always easy to root for the players before, but now it seems their true colors are really coming out, and once that negative perception is out there – it’s out there.

Not to say the owners aren’t at fault as well, but I think with the players, it was different. We as fans were more familiar with them because they were the ones gutting it out on the field week to week, for our favorite teams. So of course we’re probably going to see it their way.

Now I’m not so sure. With the more selfishness that keeps showing itself from the players’ side, I think we’re beginning to see them in a different light.

And it’s definitely not a good one.