Will there be NFL football in 2011?

[Cbus cardsfan]

Do you think the season will be played next year or will there be a work stoppage ?
I think it's all posturing right now, on both sides, and a deal gets done rather quickly when the deadline approaches.

 

[Snakester]

There is too much money to be made on both sides. Common sense tells me to not even worry about this at all. What if sense tells me it could come down to the wire but a deal would still be done before training camp.

 

[kerouac9]

I'll say yes, but it'll be a shortened season (maybe 12 games) with only 2 weeks of training camp. No minicamps at all.

 

[oaken1]

if the players decertify the union they are screwed,...they may win this one, with the individual lawsuits,....but they can never reform the union with the same power they have had,.....because decertifying is their biggest threat, and if they try it a second time, any decent lawyer will be able to beat them because it will be seen as a strong arm tactic the union uses to bully the owners.
The individual lawsuits can be drawn out for years,...meanwhile, the league drafts new players, brings guys over from Canada, keeps playing, keeps making money,...all the while paying far less and getting everyone adjusted to the new lower payscale.....a lower payscale which will allow the teams to have enough cash set aside to pay those lawsuits when they finally settle.
The players lose either way,...if they have any sense, they take a knee, and plant their collective lips upon the leagues overstuffed arse, and stop trying to bite the hand that feeds them. The further this issue is pushed, the more impotent the union will become, and the more evident it will become that they have no power.

 

[Mulli]

I voted yes. Next weeks games are in 2011, right?

 

[TJ]

I voted yes. Next weeks games are in 2011, right?

Touche....

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Work stoppage, but some games will be played in the 2011 season. What option is that?

 

[seesred]

If a strike comes, it will be for the first two pre season games, which they want anyway.

GBR
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[Cbus cardsfan]

I voted yes. Next weeks games are in 2011, right?

 

[Jersey Girl]

There is too much money to be made on both sides. Common sense tells me to not even worry about this at all. What if sense tells me it could come down to the wire but a deal would still be done before training camp.

That's what I'm thinking.

 

[Derm]

A "yes" vote here but league and the NFLPA can both be pretty hard-headed. I just can not imagine the PR nightmare (for both) a strike / lock-out during this stinky economy.

 

[Southpaw]

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[Southpaw]

A "yes" vote here but league and the NFLPA can both be pretty hard-headed. I just can not imagine the PR nightmare (for both) a strike / lock-out during this stinky economy.

I thought the NFLPA was decertified.

 

[DemsMyBoys]

Yes. It's too big to fail.

 

[titan]

there will be no strike. the millionaires will want to stay millionaires and the billionaires will want to stay billionaires. if there is a stoppage they will lose more than money, they may lose a lot of fans and with this economy people may spend there season ticket money elsewhere. prime example, just look back a few years ago when baseball came back after a strike. nobody was going to the games and the only thing that saved it was the batting title between the 2 roids users. so the way i see it the NFL and the players are on a slippery slope.

 

[CaptTurbo]

Wouldnt be the first time.

 

[THESMEL]

The owners war chest are packed but they won't need it. They started out at a 40% offered to the players union and won't go a penny over a 50/50 partnership of risk and reward with any players union again.

This players will fall on its sword. They will continue to bicker and fight and spend a million to make a dime. but the players won't vote to accept a 50/50 partnership with the owners and will die a horrble death in public over 2-3 percent, they like 65% and having the Owners by the balls, See Haynesworth and J Russell for more details.

My reasoning is the doubling and tripling of franchise worth in a relatively short period of time since the last CBA, Is over. not just the bad economy but saturation of the US market. There is still LA for expanion, Look out for the LA Leinarts coming next fall.

International expansion is a goal but its not there yet, maybe but the rest of the NFL would have to be willing to heavily invest in it's start up and maintance for years. Comparitivly little bang for their buck.

With UFL's 4 teams and the former NFL personell involved could leverage for an NFL expansion including LA? but really ther NFL is so popular it would steal fans from another teams bottom line rather than gain more fan dollars overall.

the owners want to hire scrubs, and not honor bad contracts forced by agents through fan leverage. The union has already planned to die. so players can go after teams with their individual contracts as a non union organization.

like bringing the canary to the cat, the owners will crush the agents and enjoy every minute of it. any court would see the organized manipulation of the Players union.

So Scrubs willl start, union will die, Players will cross and if lucky the OWNERS will choose to honor their current contracts. They can not continue to cut a Billion dollars in checks each year for 4-6 % profits, on a good year, shared among 32 or more teams.

They would have to invest in expansion out of their own pockets cause 4-6% is not enough, and no players are willing to pitch in!

How many 275$ Black Matt leinart Jerseys do you own? They are cheap at Vanity fair in Mesa! really cheap!

They might as well be the government at this point.