Says everything anyone needs to know. You aren’t interested in what is best for the league LONG TERM, only who gets the best(read most cash) for the players. Your endpoint is much like DeMoron’s and doesn’t have anything to do with what is best for ALL parties involved(you know coming to a NEGOTIATED settlement that suits all sides), only how much of a money grab the players can get.

Guess you are union steward or community organizer or some such

You’re aware that the players voted for DeMaurice Smith over Troy Vincent, right?

And how is he “making a fortune”? You do know he’s not billing hourly, correct?

The greatest labor leader in sports history was Marvin Miller, who never played professionally.

BTW, I stand happily corrected. Goodell is not a lawyer and I stopped saying he was as soon as I found that out.

Great point, get DeMoron and the players back to the table to talk about ANYTHING. Oh, that’s right, they don’t want to negotiate. They selected DeMoron instead of someone who cares about them and the game and he we sit.

I propose that the players wake up and replace the attorney that is making a fortune off the players backs.

Install a player or former player that TRUELY has the players best interests and the interests of the game at heart.

The problem is DeMaurice and the players not realizing that he does not have their best interests in mind. He only has his own interests in mind.

Put Tony Gonzalez, Tony Richardson, Jason Snelling together with Stan Kroenke, Bobby Kraft, and Bob McNair and NOBODY else and I am sure a deal can be reached

These NFLPA buffons are still being lawyered up on the guise the Management will blink soon. When they do they will get that all allusive collective bargaining agreement that basketball and baseball have.

The big market areas will win and get the top players and the other 2/3rds of the teams, like baseball and bball will be also rans.
Parity ends and you and I get to watch the same two teams in the super bowl each year. Football will never be the same for the fans and the players don’t give a sh$$.

Duane, we both know that the pro-owner folks enjoy either being misinformed, or spouting false information, as long as it makes Smith and / or the players look bad.
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…says the poster who keeps saying Goodell is a lawyer no matter how many people try to correct him. Just sayin’.
There are extremists on both sides and I’m not a fan of either extreme.

Now, given that the NFL minimum is almost 400k per year and the average salary in the NFL is over 1.7 million dollars per year, considering that the NFL only wants to limit the increase in yearly salaries via the cap, most of us who are pro NFL do not see anything so terrible about the average salary in two years being 1.750 million dollars per year instead of 1.9 million per year.

It is obviously better for the long term prospects of the league and the game and you cannot tell me that any player will suffer undue hardship because of that change in the growth in salaries.

And I think it is the pro player posters who have a problem with resentment of ownership based on class and wealth. An awful lot of your posts seem based on class envy and the overall union mentality of hating anybody who doesn’t agree with “labor’s” position and line.

BS. Real fans follow their teams regardless of who may be playing at the time.

And by the way, do you really think people pay good money to see Chester Pitts?

Apparently Tebow wants to get all union members and representatives of management and owners together at Cowboys Stadium and have them all hold hands and ask for enlightenment from “Jesus Christ his Lord and Savior”, as everyone puts their differences aside and sings a rousing rendition of: “Bringing in the Sheaves!”

Entertain me or shut the f**k up already!
I am too old (49) to give a damn about rich guys playing a game anymore and if they screw up this season then they have lost me.

Kessler is an idiot if he thinks thinking people will just let him run the NFL into the ground for the sake of making his family millions. He wants to dissolve everything that makes the NFL the NFL. He has already made over $25 million in legal fees from 2006-2010. Now that he is the lead in all the lawsuits, the amount he is making must be staggering. Meanwhile middle and lower tier players are suffering as are everyone employed by the NFL, hotels, stadiums, vendors, etc. All for the sake of making the Kessler family richer. It makes me want to puke.

On the other hand, football is the only source of significant income for virtually all NFL players. If 2011 is cancelled they lose everything.

I wonder who is going to cave first. the answer is obvious.

Aren’t these the same players who criticize some of the owners for maximizing their money by laying off unnecessary employees?

Seems like the greed isn’t limited to one side.

consider, that with litigation, appeals, more appeals, finally to SCOTUS for final adjudification, the time frame could be 5 – 7 years?

Consider that you will be out of the league due to age and deterioration of skills from sitting on your butt with no organized practices? How many years are you willing to be in it for the long haul? Prepared to totally sacrifice your career and income for the “previous and future” players?

I severely doubt, that when the time frame stretches out beyond this season, that you will have the determination to hang in there for “the long haul”