Some people don’t understand that if the owners refuse to negotiate fairly with individual players, and it will be obvious, they are opening themselves up for further lawsuits. Eventually they will be paying the players millions for sitting at home. That’s how suits work. Anyone that has ever been wrongly fired and got their jobs back got back pay. The same thing would happen here. And with no lockout insurance money, which the owners will still owe the players 59% of, most owners will struggle to make those payments. And they can’t get that money from the networks.

Stop looking at the NFL as a league and look at it as an industry of competing companies. Which it is. They work together under the NFL banner. If Peyton Manning suddenly can’t get a job, he will sue. If the owner pays him and surrounds him with bums, the product suffers. And the networks won’t pay for a weak product. Those TV contracts are the vast majority of most teams money.

The owners have no choice. Even if the 8th does a partisan vote. The Supreme Court won’t as they proved in American Needle point. The Supreme Court is not going to overrule itself. Also if Judge Doty comes back and awards triple damages on the 2.4 billion the league left on the table in the last contract, the owners will have to pony up 7.2 billion to the players. A lot of teams would go out of business immediately.

Stop holding your breathe owners. Go back to the table. The blue color will go away after awhile.

With the Stay coming from the 8th Circuit and a couple months being needed for the Appeal to work it’s way through tell the players grab the Sunscreen and hit the Beach as they will not be playing Ball or being paid for who knows how much longer.

And to all the Free Agents?, what a shame as there is no Free Agency, hope the owners stick it to these players that want to change the game, they are punks and the players of yesterday would eat them for lunch on the field.”

you obviously do not know the full story the players just want basically the same deal as last. and if you think even republicans like to see what the nfl has been doing you are extremely wrong the appeals court is gonna deny the stay and then uphold the judges decision after all there is no evidence that the judge acted to quickly/unfairly and that is what is needed to override a ruling the judge laid out everything in the case and came to a well thought out ruling not even the republicans can overrule it even if they want to

Pretty pathetic to see the NFLPA and it’s players acting like this … Respect the process – give it a couple of days, it’s not like any of these greedy bastards would normally be working out on draft day.
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Seriously? Respect the process? The lockout has been lifted. Time for the owners to respect the process. They were the “greedy bastards” who started this by opting out of the CBA and demanding an additional billion dollars off the top before dividing revenues. The players didn’t demand anything. And why wouldn’t they work out on draft day?

the players walked away… they could have a deal right now if they hadn’t ‘shammed’… they have been ordered to negotiate and haven’t done so in good faith…. they can squawk all they want… but the reason we are here is them….”

do you even know the specifics of the deal the owners were gonna take an extra billion just for the hell of it yeah i bet you would take that too LMAO

A mother is always right, even if they are wrong, so stop the nagging and man up NFL!

“Ah, yes…Jennifer Lopez in handcufss…I can dream!”

That would be the ideal situation from this, yes. If there’s not going to be any football, let’s at least throw Jennifer Lopez behind bars where she and her bad taste can’t hurt any one anymore.

Won’t someone think of the children?

by the way guys… first court skirmish is merely step 1…. NFL doesn’t care what happens in court as long as Player costs go down… and the Players are no longer a union… who do you think is getting played?

Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft just signed the 2010 NFL All Pro team.

Can’t wait to see Goodell up on the stage in Radio City Music Hall in an orange perp suit and hands chained behind his back, while a federal marshall with shotgun raises the mike to his mouth to announce the draft picks.

One word or warning in the slammer, Roger, don’t bend over for the soap.

Wonderful. In my mind, I’m going to Carolina.

Ah, yes…Jennifer Lopez in handcufss…I can dream!

Some people are thinking like the owners. You’re not Gods. Just businessmen. Accept a fair deal and move on. Damn, you bunch of Gordan Gecko’s. How many boats do you think you can waterski behind?

Too much money. People with money don’t do perp walks unless they’re Madoff. (And I’d like to see the logistics behind putting the entire population of Green Bay in jail.)

That said, being found in contempt of court is not going to serve them well with ANY judge they find themselves in front of next.

The argument by the NFLPA* which would stand up in all courts including the Supreme Court would an injunction based on Irreparable Harm on players as apparently a number of players (including union board members) without access to team facilities and staff (babysitters) are a danger to themselves and society…….so put them back to work!

Stop the insanity!

Hopefully the 8th Circuit levels the playing field and forces both parties to mediate / negotiate to an agreement. Get this out of the court and the damn lawyers & judges, and into a board room so that business people can talk about the parameters of a CBA!!!!!!

Wouldn’t it be cool to see steeler Harrison impose the fine on Goodell for conduct detrimental to the League.

With the Stay coming from the 8th Circuit and a couple months being needed for the Appeal to work it’s way through tell the players grab the Sunscreen and hit the Beach as they will not be playing Ball or being paid for who knows how much longer.

And to all the Free Agents?, what a shame as there is no Free Agency, hope the owners stick it to these players that want to change the game, they are punks and the players of yesterday would eat them for lunch on the field.