NFL owners meeting to center around labor negotiations

QBREES9 · 03-07-2010, 03:13 PM

The league's collective bargaining agreement is slated to expire one year from now. As is common early in labor negotiations, both sides - owners and players - are taking hard-line stances couched in placating tones. But with talks typically not beginning in earnest until the 11th hour on these sort of mammoth deals, experts said each side needs to get its fallback positions in order soon lest professional football vanish for some time in 2011.

For the moment, each side presents a united front and, perhaps more telling, is represented by a man engaged in his first protracted labor agreement. In negotiations sometimes colored by personalities, the character and mettle of the front men represents the unknown factor.
"It really is a dance, but on both sides there are guys who are just adamant, saying, 'No, we can't afford it,'" said Jim Miller, a former Saints and NFL executive who hammered out earlier CBAs. "One thing is, I don't see a quick resolution, there almost never is until the witching hour. I don't think anyone is optimistic things will get done earlier."

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03-07-2010, 03:13 PM	#1
QBREES9 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: New Haven Ct Posts: 23,989	NFL owners meeting to center around labor negotiations The league's collective bargaining agreement is slated to expire one year from now. As is common early in labor negotiations, both sides - owners and players - are taking hard-line stances couched in placating tones. But with talks typically not beginning in earnest until the 11th hour on these sort of mammoth deals, experts said each side needs to get its fallback positions in order soon lest professional football vanish for some time in 2011. For the moment, each side presents a united front and, perhaps more telling, is represented by a man engaged in his first protracted labor agreement. In negotiations sometimes colored by personalities, the character and mettle of the front men represents the unknown factor. "It really is a dance, but on both sides there are guys who are just adamant, saying, 'No, we can't afford it,'" said Jim Miller, a former Saints and NFL executive who hammered out earlier CBAs. "One thing is, I don't see a quick resolution, there almost never is until the witching hour. I don't think anyone is optimistic things will get done earlier." NFL owners meeting to center around labor negotiations \| - NOLA.com
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