Comments on: NFLPA* issues warning on website that’s trying to reconstitute a union

By: usa888

usa888 — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:26:06 +0000

Thank for nice information.

By: nflvr

nflvr — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:57:07 +0000

Good morning all. I would like to say thank you to all of the supporters of NFLVR.com. To the people that are upset, a lot of the facts have gotten lost somehow. The site has always had a disclaimer in the middle of the front page stating we are NOT an affiliate nor associated with the NFL or NFLPA. Our mission was to have created a place where NFL Players COULD vote for recertification IF the Players, NFLPA, and NFL liked the idea and site. Upon learning from Georger Atallah via Twitter that the NFLPA wasn’t interested, I stopped advertising, removed the voting content from the site, Twitter, and Facebook. As for the email sent to players and agents from the NFLPA, some of the things it states are not true at all and don’t understand why the NFLPA would not have learned the facts before emailing everyone false information? Regardless, the point was to help, the NFLPA didn’t want the help, so I stopped trying. As for NFLVR.com I’ve decided to turn it into a social network/blog site for NFL Players and Fans. I sincerely apologize for my idea becoming such a distraction and wish that the site would have been allowed to help the process. Sincerely, Austin D. Jordan, NFLVR.com

By: dt325

dt325 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:31:28 +0000

I love how the guy who has “Low man on the totem pole at Crown Roofing” listed as his occupation on facebook thought that he needed to take the initiative to get something like this done.

By: jiggad369

jiggad369 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:03:19 +0000

Someone call up Keanu and see if he still QB’s on the weekends.

By: jiggad369

jiggad369 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:00:14 +0000

Someone call up Leaning and see if he still QB’s.

By: bengalsown

bengalsown — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:23:05 +0000

LOL @ the people who think that “signatures” submitted to the website would re-unionize the players.

By: easyeddie

easyeddie — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:13:33 +0000

Looks like D-Smith got his coatholder to make a few threats.
(From the site in question):

Welcome to NFL Virtual Reality.Due to recent conversation in between us and George Atallah of the NFLPA via Twitter, we have removed some content of our site. We learned that the NFLPA is not interested in doing voting on our site in order to recertify the NFL Player’s Union once an agreement has been made.

We thank George Atallah and the NFLPA for the consideration of using our site and services.

By: z28camaro2471

z28camaro2471 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:08:56 +0000

Two weeks = 336 hours. You’re welcome.

By: tntitans31

tntitans31 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:07:00 +0000

Arrelious Benn re-tweeted it too..

By: rbirving

rbirving — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:06:10 +0000

obvious?

Why would that be obvious? I don’t care what you’re talking about, it always take longer to put something together than it does to blow it up!

By: richm2256

richm2256 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:04:01 +0000

frostbelt says:
I hope the NFL falls apart. Go NHL!
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You mean the NHL that “fell apart” and missed an entire season a few years back, that NHL????

By: richm2256

richm2256 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:02:35 +0000

Please be advised that this site is not affiliated with either the NFL or the NFLPA. You should ignore this site and advise your players to do so as well.”

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You mean the NFLPA that decertified and no longer exists, that NFLPA????

By: thecross2

thecross2 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:57:55 +0000

Bill’s Player Rep george Wilson just said the major problem is the demand to recertify by Tuesday and that was too soon. Because they spent so long deciding and educating on decertifying that they should have the opportunity to take time to recertify.

Let me ask them this, When they spent “so long” “educating” players on on decertifying, they didn’t spend any time going over how to recertify? No one thought to aks then, “Ok if we decertify, how do we recertify?”

It’s obvious, that if I’m going to convince you to decertify, I’ll explain how easy it will be to recertify. If a union is really needed, then obviously you want to reassure them that putting the union back in place will be quick and painless.

I know they did that. You know they did that. Quit calling the fans a bunch of idiots!

By: tntitans31

tntitans31 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:56:40 +0000

Antonio Cromartie re-tweeted it too, FYI

By: Burritto

Burritto — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:56:38 +0000

Roddy White tweeted the link out last night too, but has since deleted it from his Twitter feed.

By: sogymath

sogymath — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:55:05 +0000

“”Technically*”" they are not a union. So why can’t football players independently start another players union. Maybe B Marshall and a whole lot of other players got together and said join our union. Why not?

By: jakek2

jakek2 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:46:41 +0000

The identity of 95% of the pro-owner posters on this site is FINALLY revealed! You are all different handles for Austin Jordan of Roanoke, VA.

By: tomsd1

tomsd1 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:43:36 +0000

Very cogent, correct and timely post. All Kessler wants is for everything to blow up so he can hopefully collect a huge fee in the Antitrust case.

He is a walking bomb.

By: bradjames33160

bradjames33160 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:43:10 +0000

Chris Harris just Tweeted at me, the NFL has nothing to do with that site so I guess he’s not taking the bait, oh well only 50 percent…

By: netherscourge

netherscourge — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:43:09 +0000

I would not sign anything that Jerome Harrison re-tweets, except an order for his immediate dismissal.

By: stonedolphin89

stonedolphin89 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:42:40 +0000

So, if I register, does that make me part of the NFLPA? Will DeMo have to represent my interests in negotiations? LOL

By: wetpaperbag2

wetpaperbag2 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:40:33 +0000

This smells of identity theft. When a worker wants to vote to begin a Union or even re-certify as a Union, there are two ways to go about this. One is a secret ballot in which voters drop off their ballots to a disclosed location once they have physically proven their identity. The other is via a mail ballot. The address and name on the mailer is of the worker, but the actual ballot itself and the return mailer is anonymous.

Both processes are the approved methods of the NRLB (that governs all unions in the country).

The person(s) who created this “virtual” website, if not authorized by the NRLB, can be in fact fined by the Federal Government and could even see jail time. This will be interesting to see how this develops. Maybe it’s the owners’ minions who put up the site in order to see who in fact is voting to belong to the union. If so, that is illegal.

By: NFLJunkie

NFLJunkie — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:39:51 +0000

Hilarious. Something tells me Austin might be the most popular kid at his high school this fall if he managed to dupe a bunch of NFL players into sending him their e-mail addresses and maybe their cell phone numbers, too.

By: readimgram1

readimgram1 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:36:28 +0000

“Let’s all go to the site and sign the players up.”

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ROFL Brilliant!

We can fix this ourselves! Let’s reform the NFLPA tonight!!

By: sniperkn9

sniperkn9 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:36:05 +0000

USE THE LINK!!!!

By: descendency

descendency — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:35:17 +0000

94% yes, 18 total votes.

LOL.

By: nortonfest

nortonfest — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:33:09 +0000

What is with the censors on this site? All I did was suggest that the picture should have been the Staples “That was easy” button instead of a panic button, and they deleted my post. I was giving props to Austin for easily putting his site up.

By: rbirving

rbirving — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:32:21 +0000

I have to admit, the lockout has been more entertaining than the usual NFL off-season…..

By: majbobby

majbobby — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:29:03 +0000

If 50% plus one player vote on this site, Guess what they are unionized.

Kessler is trying to stop that from happening, but that is the truth. Heck a Facbook page that allowed 50% + 1 VERFIFIED players to vote and zing you have reformed the Union.

The only challange would be showing that the people that set up accounts and voted were actually NOT current players.

By: nineroutsider

nineroutsider — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:27:19 +0000

@johnnycamparm

Yeah, it is an awesome SEO play! I still think he needs to get run through by lawyers on both sides for wasting out time.