I shoulda listened to ya DJ.

 

Not for 2 and half weeks anyway, Then it's back to Tucson to finish up some school (big hug, leetle kees). Let me tell you, University of Arizona football has a great stadium with perfect weather to enjoy some fun and talented games...NFL will not be missed.

 

Someone wake me when it's over, will ya ??

 

Classic case of PFT over reaching Deej, Pitts did not say "the lockout will go on for 2 more weeks" he said "two more weeks to get the situation resolved"...which situation? The lawsuits? The CBA? Which one was he speaking about? Where is the context of what he was responding to?

This is why PFT is kinda garbage Deej.

 

Actually, if you read the article closely, the only quote attributed to Chester Pitts is "two full weeks." The part about "to get the situation resolved" is not attributed to Pitts at all.

 

If this keeps up, they're going to have to add a Lockout Mode to Madden NFL 12

 

Which is kind of what I mean about PFT trowa, they take a tiny bit of information, in this case 4 words, with no context, then run with it.

Generates lots of page hits, is de facto garbage.

 

I was watching the news this morning and the talk was the two weeks referred to the time it would take to re-certify the NFLPA so they could take a vote.

 

Yup, that appears to be the culprit. Something about needing 1000 certification cards filled out and returned in order to re-certify.

Quite frankly, I'm not sure why that should take two weeks. There's a lot of money at stake here. I'm just guessing they don't want to spend the necessary dough to ensure that it gets done sooner.

 

Albert Breer was saying that they cant vote until this lawsuit is resolved, I posted it somewhere....

Who knows how long that would take...

 

No doubt by snail mail...... :wink2:

 

Exactly. God forbid they do something drastic like arrange for the re-certification cards to be printed locally for all the players they need them from, and then sent back by overnight mail. God forbid they actually consider flying players somewhere so they can sign their re-certification cards and then fly back. That might cost MONEY. They'd rather lose money than spend money.

 

Yeah this thing is moving to slow for it to be done within the next few days. I honestly think we end up missing the first pre season game if not the first 2.

 

I think the players might be aiming to lose the Hall of Fame game. They want the owners to suffer a bloody nose out of this somehow.

 

I may have heard it wrong but there was a legal analyst on NFLTA last night that said they could do it with something as simple as e-mail.

 

Which means the players would lose money as well, that just doesn't make much sense.

 

I think this is right. It is actually something I have been thinking about for a little bit now that the major issues seemed to have been worked out. The players appear to want to kick a little dirt onto the owners right before shaking their hands.

 

LOL. Oh no, that would just be....INSANE!!!

The President can sign bills into law while being physically out of the country but players can't give their re-certification votes remotely. Nice.

 

One game won't affect next year's salary cap much. But in the mean time, players get something like $50,000 from each preseason game while the owners get more like $4 million or something like that. It's stupid but yeah the players feel like they can do without the preseason games more than the owners.

 

you're right :lol: that and the Miami players want none of the 2-a-days right now.....

 

Meh, they should be able to tweet their certifications...

 

Hall of Fame Game canceled.