The situation you dreamed up is a violation of anti-trust rules. I mean, go to bed happy tonight if you really think you’re going to see that happen, but don’t hold your breath waiting for it.

Oh, and thanks DeMaurice Smith… you utter obnoxiousness and complete lack of regard for the long term health of the game has me doing what I once thought was impossible… I am cheering for billionaires to come out on top.

Earth to Tommy: The lockout is over. Now the players and their little gnome of a leader are suing the NFL for anti-trust violations. So, what the NFL needs to do is eleminate all the rules; no draft, no trades, no salary cap, no salary floor, nothing.

Then, the fun begins. Fire every single NFL player. Adios “workers”, you’re services are no longer needs. That’s it. Good bye. Adios. Auf Wiedersehen. There’s no salary cap, so there’s no cap it. Just good ol, get outta my office you spoiled, ungrateful dumbass.

Then, bring back the rules and bring in a whole new set of NFL players. Bring in a bunch of free agents; pay some of them a little extra to form a new “union”, impost a 30 year CBA on them and reinstitute the draft with 30 rounds. Put in a rookie salary cap, drug testing including HGH, and every single rule the owners have ever wanted. Oh, and no free agency; ever. Not after 4 years, hot after 6 years; never. The players get out when they get traded, cut or too old.

It’s easy. Vrabel, Brees and De Dig It can try peddling their nonsense to the Arena Football League, the UFL or they can move to Canada.

The players won’t be “scabs”, they’ll just be new players. And in a season or two, nobody will ever notice the difference, except that the game will be so much better without all the Divas, their b_llsh_t and their NFLPA and their lawn gnome of a union leader.

It’s unlawful for the owners to hire replacement players (scabs) during a lockout.

I get so tired of the immature and boorish attacks on Goodell as if he’s the one calling the shots. He’s not. He does what ownership tells him to do. That’s his job.

And you know what, for as much as he annoys me, and as much as I can’t stand his constantly telling us how much we all want an international NFL and a 18 game season, and how he is always so politically correct regarding concussions and hitting, he at least works for a living. The players don’t work. They PLAY football. 16 days a year! That’s it. Some of them sit on a bench for a living. They aren’t working!!!! They work out to stay in shape, well some of them anyway, but they don’t work. Did they work in their Pop Warner years? Their Pee Wee football years? Their high school football years? Were they “workers” in college football?

Good grief, this AFL-CIO, Teamsters, SEIU crap about workers is hard enough to stomach, but calling NFL players, “Workers”, it’s just way over the top.

At least Goodell does work. He has a job. He isn’t just playing a game.

Workers. Spare me the Samuel Gompers bs.

I think only you would be so ignorant to sign such a contract.

You need to go back to school and complete 9th grade

While Smith was supposedly taking Goodell to school did he forget that the less money the owners make, the less money the players make?
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Not true. There will always be an owner willing to pay market value for talent even if that means it coming out of the owner’s lesser share. That is why the owners better get over this $1B money grab fast.

Surely there’s an antitrust wedge that the NFLPA could get in there that doesn’t involve “greatly diminishing the sport.” Fans don’t really care that much about restricted free agency, after all.

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Right, and the players will probably have to take up employment at Home Depot. Kinda think the billionaire businessman owners can ride out this labor crap better than the millionaire knucklehead players can. I don’t think many owners have the entirety of their wealth tied up in their football teams.

If I were the owners, I’d his sorry butt and this whole NFLPA Draft event as evidence that a union still exists. Turn back the clock to 1978 rules, play 18 games and tell the players to STFU. You’re replaceable.

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Challenged as an anti-trust violation in court. Theoretically the NFL would lose, and all college players would be allowed to join whichever teams they want to join.

That being said if they do try to get rid of the draft, then i am done. I will not watch this crap. If smith really does try and make it a “free market”system then he can go f him self.

This is an economic policy. Its a sports league. I have been the biggest supporter of the players on this board, but if they think no draft and other such moronic ideas such as no cap or free agent rules then the players are stupid and the owners should just tell them to go f themselves and hire scabbs and we’ll see who will cross the line first.

Even if smith is interested in taking the draft away i find it hard to believe that Vet players want that. I doubt older players want to compete with younger players for free agent dollars.

Also though i do side with the players, the more this Smith talks the more i do not like him. “ownership” is nothing more than keywords for slavery. And if i was a Black i would be highly offended that this guy is comparing something horible like being a slave to playing a game for millions of dollars. None of these players are “owned” they don’t have to play football. They can go work at McDonalds. IMO though i don’t think 98% of the players feel this way.

I think the biggest problem the NFL has right now is the morons in charge of the two sides. Goodell and Smith are nothing more than egomanical a$$holes and the league and the players would be wise to get rid of both of these aholes and bring in people who care more about the game and what keeps it going, the fans.

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That’s the thing, the labor union has “decertified” just like the 32 separate “corporations” don’t collude.

More people watch this dumb draft then watch the World Series. If it goes bye-bye, the owners will lose much moolah!!

I hope Goodell is taking notes.
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So Jake,

While Smith was supposedly taking Goodell to school did he forget that the less money the owners make, the less money the players make?

They are destroying the NFL.