Owners Approve Labor Deal
 

NFL owners voted to approve the proposed labor agreement with the NFL Players Association on Thursday, putting the potential end of the league's lockout in the hands of the players, who might vote on the proposed deal Thursday night.

Lockout -- NFL owners approve proposed labor agreement - ESPN

Hot dikaty damn!!!!! We have football!!!!!
Now I can go get my new hat!!

Sadly, not yet. The players have a meeting in about 45 minutes, the lawsuit still has to get figured out, and the Union has to (most likely has to anyway), well, reunite. LOL

We should know something definitive soon though. :bng:

Sigh...Damn....
Well, keep us posted SaintFan.

Depression lifting slightly... only 25%.... waiting for more news...

heard definitly no hof game but i can live with that.

Yes, me too. I can do without the HOF game...

One part done. Now players have to agree. Let's get it going and grab our championship.

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Wouldn't celebrate yet ff. The players could send this right back to the table and could play some serious hardball right now. Let's hope...

I'd like to think they aren't nearly dumb enough to do that, but here we are, right? I know there are a few, but surely...SURELY...even those few can look beyond the trees to see the forest...so to speak?

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you're right halo. that 31-0 vote could be a ploy. we must be careful to get all goose bumppie.

Know why it was 31 to 0 and NOT 32 to 0 ??

Because AL DAVIS ABSTAINED! LMAO

...'ol Al...

Starting to sound more and more like the players are going to vote "no"...

jeesh...

I'm hearing that the owners changed some of the stuff in the CBA without the players knowing about it. So it looks like the players are going to vote no. But hey it's rumors.

Also don't think the players like the "pushy" nature of the move by the owners. That's the kind of behavior to make this go on longer. Why, oh why, after all the progress the owners and players have made in the past few weeks.... why would the owners try to "pull a fast one" PR move? They should have met jointly with the players.

That's why the cats are on the roller coaster.

One minute left until his hourly transfusion.

Not only does the resolution of the lawsuit have to be figured out, but, from the players' perspective, that resolution has to be at least neutral... in other words, the owners and players have to agree that de-certifying the NFLPA as a bargaining unit can not be declared as illegal. The players want to keep that arrow in their quiver in case they need it in 2021.

I'm not getting my hopes up for anything. This could go on and on and on. Personally, I feel like Demaurice Smith is going to try to take a stand and make the small things even bigger. He's going to treat it like he is fighting for the players when he is just trying to make a name for himself as a savior.

Just my opinion.

The players' union, NFLPA, is decertified. So there is no vote for the players. No union... no vote! They would have to recertify the NFLPA, etc, etc, etc ... and how long does that take?

Well, they decertified pretty darned quickly. You would think, with all the time that the negotiations and mediation has taken up, they would have been prepared to recertify the NFLPA just as quickly in order to get a deal signed when the time came.

If it takes more than a matter of a few days, in my opinion, someone dropped the ball. They should have been ready to recertify.

Getting really sick of this.