NFL Lockout has begun - New England Patriots Forums

***Deus Irae*** · 03-11-2011, 11:09 PM

Per Adam Schefter, via PFT:

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We are still waiting for an official announcement from the NFL, but ESPN’s Adam Schefter says a lockout is a done deal.

Schefter reports that the NFL owners will lock the players out midnight, as expected.

Report: Lockout starts at midnight | ProFootballTalk

***Wolfpack*** · 03-11-2011, 11:10 PM

***jmt57*** · 03-11-2011, 11:17 PM

The NFL Network is now saying that the owners have locked out the players. Considering that the NFLN is owned by the NFL, I'll presume this to be factual and not a rumor.

***Joker*** · 03-11-2011, 11:43 PM

Hey!!...who changed the g-dmed locks????...man...I got 8 wives and twelve mouths to feed..and that chiseler,Joey Bags the Jeweler, is only offering me 1/10% back on my ton and a half of gold chains and rings...dyam...how am I supposed to live on less than a mil a year????

patsfanboy · 03-11-2011, 11:46 PM

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***ctpatsfan77*** · 03-12-2011, 12:25 AM

While claims of things going nuclear are nice, Florio does point out an interesting fact that may force the NFL to end the lockout:

Antitrust lawsuit alleges that NFL has waived “sham” defense to decertification | ProFootballTalk

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Paragraph 45 of the civil complaint explains that, when settling the Reggie White antitrust lawsuit in 1993, the league “insisted on the right to terminate the [agreement] if the players did not reform a union within thirty days.” To get that provision, the NFL agrees that, “if a majority of players decided to end their collective bargaining representation upon or after the [agreement's] expiration,” the NFL would waive the right to argue, among other things, that the decertification was “a sham or otherwise ineffective.”

***AndyJohnson*** · 03-12-2011, 12:36 AM

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Originally Posted by ctpatsfan77

While claims of things going nuclear are nice, Florio does point out an interesting fact that may force the NFL to end the lockout:

Antitrust lawsuit alleges that NFL has waived “sham” defense to decertification | ProFootballTalk

I suppose the league could argue the term 'that agreement' since that is not the CBA in place now.

naF staP · 03-12-2011, 01:21 AM

Is it a lockout or a players strike? Or does it just depend on who's point of view you are looking at?

***Wolfpack*** · 03-12-2011, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by naF staP

Is it a lockout or a players strike? Or does it just depend on who's point of view you are looking at?

It is a lockout, although a lot of people think the lockout will be declared invalid. But for now, it's a lockout.

***ctpatsfan77*** · 03-12-2011, 01:45 AM

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I suppose the league could argue the term 'that agreement' since that is not the CBA in place now.

Again, I haven't read through it, but I remember seeing something in the current CBA linking it to past ones. In any case, though, it is/was the same NFLPA, so that might suffice.