This is readily apparent by a simple review of the corollary section of the CBA: arbitration hearings for fines/suspensions arising from conduct on the field. For those hearings: the PARTIES shall, on an annual basis, JOINTLY select (2) or more designees to serve as hearing officers.”

There is a clear distinction clearly set forth in the CBA: The commissioner picks the arbitrator for conduct detrimental hearings; the commissioner and the and suspended or NFLPA

This is nothing more than a dispute between an employer and a group of employees. Absent a showing of discrimination due process, the U.S. Constitution are utterly irrelevant. Stated more basically, the league and the players are in a a disagreement over a contract: their collective bargaining agreement.

Which is why all this talk about 1996 shows the lunacy, or at least extreme desperation, of the NFLPA and Ginsberg. The sole question is whether the suspended players breached the CBA as alleged during the time period specified. What happened in the NFL when the players were in elementary school is nothing more than a historical footnote.

Despite the curious outrage against Goodell and the league, they are the ones sticking to the CBA. The NFLPA and Ginsberg? They continue to throw spaghetti against the wall and call their opposition names. How professional.

Hmmm, a panel recently vacated the Gestapo’s suspensions in part because he didn’t follow the CBA.
Now the Gestapo ignored the CBA by not consulting the union prior to appointing Tags.

I really wish some people would get a clue before posting uttter nonsense.RG has such a hard on to make his attack on the aints valid that his actions are starting to become very disturbing. It’s almost like an obsession and he is willing to break rules, morals, ethics, and laws to make everyone believe his imaginary claims.

Find an impartial 3 person panel and everything will be good. Why does he refuse to let an impartial person rule? Because he AINT GOT NOTHING.

When we stop making war on the rest of the world.

Can Rog call a re-do?

I think we all are anxious for this story to close. The league needs to release its info and let a federal judge (which has no ties to the league) make a ruling. This is past a CBA issue at this point.

If the league doesn’t close this door soon, then more federal judges and congressmen will be trying to nose their way in to the internal workings of the NFL. And if the NFL handles the rest of its business like it did Bountygate, then I think we can all say that having judges and congress snooping around is far from a good thing
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I agree with the majority of ur comments, but a Federal Judge from Louisiana who has already stated her bias is hardly the right person to have as an “arbritrator”.

I think we all are anxious for this story to close. The league needs to release its info and let a federal judge (which has no ties to the league) make a ruling. This is past a CBA issue at this point.

If the league doesn’t close this door soon, then more federal judges and congressmen will be trying to nose their way in to the internal workings of the NFL. And if the NFL handles the rest of its business like it did Bountygate, then I think we can all say that having judges and congress snooping around is far from a good thing.

The union doesn’t give two craps whether it’s doing the right thing or not, so to immediately take their side with as little information that we’ve been given is naive. A union is more than willing to throw members under the bus (in this case, bounty targets) to protect a few idiots. This is just a PR game that the NFL isn’t playing. They are using the unwillingness of the NFL to share information to try to turn fans that think they have a right to know everything (which they don’t).

In summary, one shouldn’t trust the word of the NFLPA any more than the NFL since they a both focused on their own agendas.

Cue the tons of whiners saying the canned tired excuses:
1. Just accept your punishments like men and move on.
2. I’m so sick of hearing about this yet I continue to click on stories and read about this so I can comment how sick I am because I have no life.
3. “Saints*”
4. “The coaches admitted to it so it must be true”.