CBA Negotiations are reportedly 80-85% complete
 

One source with intimate knowledge of the ongoing CBA discussions tells CBSSports.com's Mike Freeman that negotiations are "80-85 percent complete."


The same figures who were spouting vitriolic hyperbole and propaganda two months ago are now shaking hands and throwing jokes around at the meetings. "The bullet train is headed towards a deal and the only thing that can stop it is last-minute, rampant stupidity," writes Freeman. Both sides are reportedly making "major concessions," and attorneys have begun reviewing proposals. Participants are now canceling vacations scheduled for the next few weeks because a deal could be finished "within a matter of days."

Source: CBA framework may be ready by weekend - NFL - Yahoo! Sports

Finally.

Now maybe Drew will STFU!!! :p

How 'bout you guys quit dikkin around and make it 100%!

it ain't over till the f-t lady sings.

Hurry the F#@k up. Me a black man was watching Hockey the other night this is some BULL.

Hhmmmmmmm.... Is that like saying a girl is 80-85% pregnant?

I'm LMAO Luda. I used to go to Hockey games here in Shreveport (WHEN WE HAD A FRIKKIN HOCKEY TEAM), and you're right, now that I think back, I don't remember seeing black folks attending. What's up with that?

I remember a famous black comedian addressed that question.

I'm paraphrasing...

Because Its a bunch of crazy white guys who all wanna fight, playing in the freezing damn cold, carrying huge sticks and razor blades on their feet.

Because it's true we would just be skating and hitting people to start a fight. The thing about it is I'm a sports fan so I check out different sports every once in while but I was watching Hockey and I was lost I didn't understand any of it.

Hockey may be the best example of a sport that doesn't translate to TV very well.

I've never seen an NHL game live, but I saw a local minor league Hockey game live and the action was freaking violently fast and furious. TV can't even come close to the excitement a live hockey game brings.

I'm pretty ignorant of hockey rules too, but most hockey fans put it right up there with football as an awesome sport.

I'm not a fan by any stretch, but no sport is better live than Hockey. It's insane.

Well.. if you start watching swim races, then you're in REAL trouble!! :)

You are absutely right Saintfan. I recommend that everybody go to a live hockey game. I take that back, you need to go to at least 5-10 live hockey games, even if it's a minor league team. If you go to just one, you may never go back because you don't know the rules, you can't keep up with what's going on, and if you blink, you may miss a score. But the action on the ice is very fast and very furious. And it takes several games just to half way figure out what's going on. And the fans, the fans are the most rabid fans you will ever see at any sporting event. When you have 4000 crazy people, even the kids, screaming "HEY, YOU SUCK" all in unison, you know you've found a place to have fun. Even if you don't understand the game, the fans make the tickets worth the price. The fans are also great people. If you don't understand the game, most of them don't mind, even like, to explain the rules, and explain the action taking place on the ice.

Or curling! LOL

How can I be excited ... have you ever heard of the 80/20 rule? The last 20% will be 80% of the difficulty.

Keep the lawyers out and we'll get to see some football.

Great News !!!!

I hope this is true, the Saints have a SB to win

Worlds shortest books...

Jewish business ethics...
Polish wit and wisdom...
Italian war heros...
Brothers I've seen at Hockey Games :D

Hockey schmockey...

and I'm like you, Danno...ignorant to the rules. Pretty hard to know anything about hockey when you're and old fart who grew up on the Gulf Coast. I had plenty of football, baseball, basketball, and track stuff piled all in my closet...but not even a hockey ball. :)

This is what I was thinkin'...