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Deus Irae 03-11-2011 11:09 PM

Report: Lockout starts at midnight
 
Per Adam Schefter, via PFT:

Quote:

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

Re: Report: Lockout starts at midnight
 
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jmt57 03-11-2011 11:17 PM

NFL Lockout has begun
 
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

Re: NFL Lockout has begun
 
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

Re: Report: Lockout starts at midnight
 
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Originally Posted by Wolfpack (Post 2500033)

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ctpatsfan77 03-12-2011 12:25 AM

Re: NFL Lockout has begun
 
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

Quote:

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

Re: NFL Lockout has begun
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ctpatsfan77 (Post 2500111)
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

Re: NFL Lockout has begun
 
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

Re: NFL Lockout has begun
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by naF staP (Post 2500169)
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

Re: NFL Lockout has begun
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by AndyJohnson (Post 2500132)
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.


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