In the end there will probably be some settlement solution that both agree to. Neither side wants to take it to court.

Oh, and can we can the Socialist BS? The league as a whole, and the owners in particular, are anything but Socialists. If you want to label them something, the accurate term would be Cartel: a small group of business/individuals who come together to regulate the cost of labor and the price of their product. The whole purpose of the NFL is to control the industry and maximize owner profit. In other words, it’s about concentrating the most amount of money possible into a small number of hands. That’s hardly Socialism. The problem is that there have been so many incorrect accusations of Socialism in the political realm that now people simply yell socialism any time something happens they don’t agree with. It’s like all those people that kept saying everything was ironical after that Alanis Morrissette song, despite the fact that the things she sang weren’t instances of irony at all.

This is already an annoying story that I will follow immensely. Still confused on how the NFL approves contracts then 2 years later penalize the teams.
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If you look past the contractual and legal speak, it’s a pretty simple story really. The owners came together and struck an agreement on what to do in the uncapped year, all the time planning ahead for the lockout they knew was coming. When the uncapped year came into effect, the Redskins and Cowboys backed out of the arrangement. They didn’t simply spend too much money, they wrote up the contracts so that the vast majority of the money was paid in the uncapped year, meaning that when the cap came back into effect those players’ salaries would hit the cap for about the same amount as that of a backup player. The league approved those deals because it couldn’t legally not approve those deals. It was an uncapped year after all. Once the CBA was agreed upon (thereby removing the threat of anti-trust litigation) the other owners decided to make the offending owners pay for betraying them. This has nothing to do with Goodell really. He’s simply managing the system. It’s the owners that came up with this idea.

NFLPA is just as crooked as the NFL.

If the cheap owners wont spend because the cant make money then sell or fold the team, dont punish the owners that do.

Player have a union we all know that, but can we for simplicity sake look at the NFL league members as a unified body as well. So it appears that everyone had the opportunity to act in the same manner in which the Cowboys and Redskins acted, but choose not to for some strange reason… dare I say being honorable.

So the Skins and the Boys decided to get ahead not by out drafting, out playing, out managing… they decided to play the game using 5 downs instead of 4.

Ethically right… answer is a clear no.

Legally right? Could be, but I am sure we will find out soon enough!

What if all teams decided to front load contracts and for players, can you imagine the bidding war! Yankees Sox’s anyone?

“Why do I get the feeling that Little Danny is going to whisper to Goodell (just to get him to bend over to hear him), while Jerry Jones plants a Cowboy boot all the way up from the other side. This doesn’t look good for Goodell.”
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Funniest comment of the day. Goodell is the one in charge here. He’s the on wearing the big boy pants. This was initiated by the other owners who played by the rules.
It was Jones and Danny Boy who just got their asses handed to them and they aren’t going to be able to do squat about it.

By telling the teams not to spend, the league is limiting players salaries without a written agreement. That is the definition of collusion, and illegal. They also approved the contracts. It does not matter that they were worried about being sued by the union, they still approved them. How can you approve something and then later say that these teams were in the wrong. These are the issues that some of you haters dont get. This is a bad presidence to set.

Two years from now they put up a new sign with Speed Limit 55. I receive a ticket in the mail for going 70 mph 2 years ago. How cool is that?

Last time I ever post from my phone.

This really confuses the ideals I grew up with.

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Not a Cowboy or JJ fan but get your facts straight. Was a few hundred and the NFL sells the Super Bowl tickets. JJ presented a seating plan during the Super Bowl bid (probably revised after awarded, etc) and the NFL sold tickets based on that. The contractors JJ hired to put in the additional seats were working until basically gametime but could not complete so the Fire Marshall said no way the seats could be occupied.

Was a failure on many fronts, but the week leading up to Super Bowl had the worst weather I have seen in 6 years living in Dallas area so everything was hampered as basically nobody could get anywhere.

There were other major failures also as maybe a few months before the game an NFL employee left his business laptop (with ticket, security details, etc) sitting in his car while eating around the stadium and was stolen.

Other than the seat debacle no different than Atlanta in 2000 when an ice storm hit a day or two before the game and screwed everything up.
Right or wrong, SB has not been in Atlanta since and doubt will be in Dallas again anytime soon.