RIP NFL

[Crash]

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[calmkiller]

Re: RIP NFL

WOOT UFL!

[RuthlessBurgher]

Re: RIP NFL

WOOT UFL!

Here's your chance to claim the "www.planetlocomotives.com" domain name while it is still hot. We'll need to start a new discussion board over there.

[birtikidis]

Re: RIP NFL

WE LOCO!

[aggiebones]

Re: RIP NFL

Let's not get dramatic. Geez
This was a televised move about a month ago. Just following the script. Do you think the players really want to miss 1 pay check?

[Crash]

Re: RIP NFL

If the Union decertifies, and then the NFL locks them out? Are the contracts still valid? Are players then free agents? The owners would basically be killing their own league and shutting it down, no?

So if they start a "new" league, wouldn't the players have to be drafted? Or just free agents free to go where they want?

The players want paid. That's why they decertify. But if they decertify and then the owners lock them out the league is basically closing up shop.

[Blockhead]

Re: RIP NFL

Panic, freak out, the end of the world is near. Where is the nearest bubble?

I'll just relax as it's all just negotiating.

[Crash]

Re: RIP NFL

We'll see. There are some agents who are convinced that the owners want to close up shop for one year, get a nice nest egg of TV money, and resume in 2012.

If the Union decertifies, and the players get locked out anyway? I'd say those concerns were correct.

The NFL will cease to exist. Every player in the league will be a free agent, and the draft will be cancelled because A) There will be no union for the players to be drafted into, and B) The NFL is taking their ball and going home.

The best case scenario now is an extension of the original deadline.

Other than that? The future of the league the way it is now is looking very bleak.

[Chachi]

Re: RIP NFL

Packers won the first Super Bowl....looks like they might have just won the last too.

[hawaiiansteel]

Re: RIP NFL

The NFL will cease to exist.

the players' union decertified once before in 1987.

and today's NFL is as successful as ever.

[Chadman]

Re: RIP NFL

Getting very close to seeing who blinks first...


Chadman is putting his money on the Owners winning this dispute by a nose...

[Crash]

Re: RIP NFL

The NFL will cease to exist.

the players' union decertified once before in 1987.

and today's NFL is as successful as ever.

The owners don't agree.

1987 was also a strike. This is a lockout by the owners.

If the union decrtifies, and then the players get locked out? The NFL is over. You will have 1500 players roaming the streets as free agents with no contracts because the league will have shut down.

This won't be resolved in 3 days. Just hope for an extension of the March 3 deadline date, because if the two steps above do take place? Nothing else matters.

[Blockhead]

Re: RIP NFL

The NFL will cease to exist.

the players' union decertified once before in 1987.

and today's NFL is as successful as ever.

The owners don't agree.

1987 was also a strike. This is a lockout by the owners.

If the union decrtifies, and then the players get locked out? The NFL is over. You will have 1500 players roaming the streets as free agents with no contracts because the league will have shut down.

This won't be resolved in 3 days. Just hope for an extension of the March 3 deadline date, because if the two steps above do take place? Nothing else matters.

overreact much?

[Crash]

Re: RIP NFL

The NFL will cease to exist.

the players' union decertified once before in 1987.

and today's NFL is as successful as ever.

The owners don't agree.

1987 was also a strike. This is a lockout by the owners.

If the union decrtifies, and then the players get locked out? The NFL is over. You will have 1500 players roaming the streets as free agents with no contracts because the league will have shut down.

This won't be resolved in 3 days. Just hope for an extension of the March 3 deadline date, because if the two steps above do take place? Nothing else matters.

overreact much?

How can the NFL exist when their is no union for the players and they get locked out? It's just like a company closing up with no notice.

Explain that, then go to the adult table.

[RuthlessBurgher]

Re: RIP NFL

Getting very close to seeing who blinks first...


Chadman is putting his money on the Owners winning this dispute by a nose...

However, that nose will subsequenly be cut off to spite their face.