Breaking all over Twitter. Chris Mortensen, Adam Schefter, NFLN, etc.
Hope you guys like baseball, because we’re going to be watching the MLB playoffs in September. Go Marlins.
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BlameItOnTheHenne, and SICK like this.
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Dang. Go Reds I guess, but I'm going to miss the NFL.
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My understanding was with decertification there will be football in September
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CFL starts in July, not worried a bit, they will get something worked out as greedy people will never pass on money..not once.
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Not necessarily. It means that locking the players out will be tougher but not impossible, and it means the now-former NFLPA can file an antitrust lawsuit against the NFL. That lawsuit will drag out as long as it takes.
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I guess I couldn't count on football, however my understanding was that is near impossible to lock out the players. The only back up the NFL had to still be able to lock out the players it to declare the decertification a sham. However there is rules in the old CBA to make that really difficult.
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All the NFL teams have to do is cease operations. It’s not impossible to keep the players out.
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When is enough money enough...I mean when your talking Billions of dollars why are they conflicting over pennies. This is all just a bunch of crap and just highlights one of the biggest things wrong with this country.
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Does this mean Stephen Ross can sign Peyton Manning????
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The problem that directly led to decertification is that DeMaurice Smith refused to back off his demand to see 10 years of financial statements. Previous CBAs didn’t need that level of disclosure to get a deal done.
Basically, the hotshot new head honcho wanted to prove his toughness and threw the sport under the bus.jdang307 likes this. -
what would be the ramifications if that happened?
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Previous CBAs didn't ask for the players to take a 1 billion dollar pay cuttexanphinatic likes this.
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Imagine a business closing its doors.
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Wouldn't that open the door to a lot more lawsuits from their partners?
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They’re willing to take that risk.
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Really? How can you be so sure?
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I think so. Seriously, this whole saga is silly. Im rooting for the owners because i hate unions. And i like the underdog. Love the grandstanding by de smith. 10 yrs of audited financials in less than 15 mins. U had two years to request this. They didnt give it to them then why would they do it now? Itll go to court and be a huge waste of money. Lawyers will be happy though.likes this.
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They were willing to go to court against a judge who consistently rules against them, and you think they aren’t willing to go all the way to “win” this? They’ll deal with the lawsuits later.
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It seems like throwing money away. With decertification they can put in their own rules. So they can play the season AND win.
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They have been requesting it for at least a year.
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The NFL was opposed to decertification because they don’t want to deal with the antitrust lawsuit. But they clearly preferred taking their chances in court rather than disclosing their finances.
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The NFL has to deal with the antitrust lawsuit with a season or without a season.
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If they had disclosed financials, then the NFLPA would still be certified.
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Larryfinfan 17-0...Priceless Club Member
Hey De Smith, how does it feel to be unemployed ?? Join the gang you greedy azz.... I'm going to start a class action suit if Smith continues to negotiate as the "player rep" !!
I just can't imagine any judge holding a company (the NFL) to showing it's books to it's employees (NFL players)...that just doesn't happen in any business....Moves likes this. -
that has zero to do with what we are talking about.
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We’re talking about whether or not the NFL would risk lawsuits from its partners if they closed operations. I’m saying that the NFL is clearly willing to deal with those lawsuits, because they refused to keep negotiations going by disclosing financials. They’re all-in on the issue.
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No, all that proves is that they are willing to deal with one lawsuit from the NFLPA.
Now that the NFLPA decertified they can create rules and start the season. Deal with the lawsuit by the NFLPA and make money while dealing with the lawsuit by the players.
To close operations would be throwing money away for no good reason, other than maybe punishing the players. However that would just open them up to more lawsuits and maybe more headaches that I do not know about.
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This isnt a normal business, at my job, if i ask for something, or demand something they can just replace me.....the nfl and the owners make their money off of the performance of people doing something a very low % of people can do. Sure me and you can go play for 500 bucks a game, but will people watch it? will you buy my jersey? doubt it. This isnt just some random job. Its entertainment, the nfl makes $ because of the special **** the players do.....texanphinatic, GridIronKing34 and ether79 like this.
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you should work for a better company
And the owners had plans all along to lockout and make money off tv deals.......uh-oh.......
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I'm not necessarily sure that a lawsuit is a certainty right now or at least until the NFL owners try to lock them out.
You’re skipping over the hypothetical part where they close doors to keep the decertified players locked out.
If they close doors and get sued as you stipulate, they are clearly willing to deal with that because they did not disclose financials to keep the NFLPA negotiations going. They went all in. They’re so determined to keep their books closed that they will deal with the legal fallout from their business partners if that’s what it takes.
Judge Doty already threw that out. The NFL doesn’t have its lockout slush fund anymore.
I thought a judge ruled to put that money in an escrow instead of the owners getting it?
They didn't go all in, they just raised the stakes. Right now there is one lawsuit, period. They have a lot of deals right now that is based on the NFL teams existing. Take Madden for instance. If there isn't a Dallas Cowboys, wouldn't that open up a lawsuit by EA? That is a lot of lawsuits they would not have to deal with.
You are saying because of A, they are willing to do B, C, D, E, F, G.
I am saying because of A, they are willing to do A.
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