Anyone else notice that of 32 teams, only 2 of the most egomaniacal, win-starved owners violated the unmentionable agreement to pay off long term contracts during the uncapped year?

Before you post you might want to do some homework. Go look at Peppers contract with the bears and there are about 30 others from about 20 teams.

They need to get De Smith his own office for continence.

Good grief.

How about the players go eat their houses?

You cannot fight a 2 front war! Ownership had their horns locked with Union……Cowboys & Skins deserved to get their hands slapped.

If Mara had done this……Skins fans would have been livid!

It still amazes me that a multi-billion dollar corporation can yet again get away with a crime like this. Oh wait, no it doesn’t surprise me at all. This is the dark side of “The American Way”.
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Your first sentence negates the rest of your point, Both parties agreed to a contract and that provision fell within its scope. So even though it was a loophole, tough beans. That’s why people hire professionals to negotiate for them, so they are protected. Maybe the NFLPA should be suing Kessler et al instead?

I wonder if the NFLPA was like congress and had to pass the CBA before they could see what was in it? The way the challenge/drag their feet over every single thing, one wonders.

And I still have no problem with the penalties on the Redskins and Cowboys, although to be fair there are a few other teams that should have also been penalized. Frankly I don’t care if there was collusion or whatever you want to call it because something needed to be done about out of control player salaries. That’s one of the big reasons a ton of fans can no longer afford buy tickets or merchandise very often.

I’m no Giants fan, “burgandyandgold”, but I’m pretty sure the Giants are sleeping easy with the 2 Lombardis in 5 years that they’ve won while it has taken the Skins 13 years to win the division–and their playoff stay will be short. In fact, if they don’t change the offense, RGIIIs career will be short. QBs can’t run too well on bad wheels.
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Any Eagle fan referencing “Lombardi’s” in an argument is pretty ironic and entertaining. If that is the jist of your argument, your Eagles rank right up there with the Cardinals and Lions.

I’m sure the Redskins are sleeping better than Mr. Lurie, Eagle fan, with the 3 Lombardi’s they’ve won, even though it was a while back, it’s better than NEVER!

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yawn. wake me up when that means anything.

RG3 is very good but until he actually brings home the prize he’s just another gimmick who cant make it through a season.

O.J. was not guilty of double-homicide.

Casey Anthony knew nothing about her daughter’s disappearance and death.

The NFL did not collude to hold down salaries in 2010- even if the players union agreed just get get the season started on time that year. Therefor the skins and cowboys must be subjected to a 46 million dollar penalty from an illegal, non-binding agreement.

It was okay to collude “this time” because 30 owners agreed and 2 decided to do what was on paper to explore an uncapped year.

America the beautiful.

It still amazes me that a multi-billion dollar corporation can yet again get away with a crime like this. Oh wait, no it doesn’t surprise me at all. This is the dark side of “The American Way”.

Once again, Jerry Kessler picks the pockets of the NFLPA.

This is very similiar to the recent financial settlements. Yeah, we broke the law but here’s a little cash so long as nobody goes to jail.

WTF were the union leaders thinking when they signed off on this?

Oh wait, I remember now, the payment was late on the Bentely so we had to settle.