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this is the start of a very messy situation.
The owners are going to sit back and laugh as the players fight each other.
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makes sense... they aren't a union any longer, why lock yourself into being represented by them? Why let your representation be a group that passes up on a very good deal just to chase a knock-down, drag-out fight?
Browns is the Browns
... there goes Joe Thomas, the best there ever was in this game.
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this is the start of a very messy situation.
The owners are going to sit back and laugh as the players fight each other.
+1
Just like in 83, some crossed the picket line because they wanted a paying job (and maybe liked football).
It's very easy for Brady, Manning, and other high profile guys to wait it out in the courts. They have more money then they can spend. The other guys, who I think represent most of the rest, are willing to settle short so they can get back on the field and start earning.
The owners, while slightly wrong with their demands, will end up winning because they won't be broke like 75% of the union will be by September.
“...Iguodala to Curry, back to Iguodala, up for the layup! Oh! Blocked by James! LeBron James with the rejection!”
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Your link does not return for me.
Where is captain copy & paste win you need'em ?
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Here ya go...
Report: NFL players' unity in trouble
Updated Apr 20, 2011 9:39 PM ET A breakaway group of NFL players are close to hiring a law firm to intervene in the antitrust lawsuit against the NFL, the Sports Business Daily reported Wednesday.
According to the report, as many as 70 mid-tier players want to be represented separately at mediation, which was being conducted between the NFL and the players in a federal courtroom in Minneapolis.
The motion, expected to be filed by the end of the week, would not contest the Brady v. NFL lawsuit, but would demand the other group of players have their own seat at the negotiations.
Most of the 10 plaintiffs — especially Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Peyton Manning — have earned far more than the average NFL player.
On the players' lockout website, an alleged copy of the law firm's solicitation letter was posted Wednesday evening under the headline "Another Attempt to Divide Players".
The letter on the website said the intention of the unnamed law firm was to represent 70 or more people — mainly "typical" players. The purported letter also hinted that the firm would be more cooperative to working with the owners on reaching an agreement.
The law firm set to represent the group of players must first resolve a minor conflict of interest before moving forward, according to the Sports Business Daily report.
U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson ordered the sides to resume mediation before a federal magistrate, and the new round of talks ended with little — if any progress made.
Nelson said two weeks ago that she would take a "couple of weeks" before ruling on the players' request for an injunction against the owners' lockout. The players argue the lockout, which went into effect March 11, is causing them irreparable harm.
An appeal to the Eighth Circuit is expected regardless of which way Nelson rules on the injunction.
The breakaway group of players is reportedly unhappy that the NFL Players Association walked out on federally-mediated talks in Washington, D.C., before decertifying the union and filing the antitrust lawsuit.
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Thank you.
I felt all along that there must be some players who could not of been happy with the union for walking out of the CBA talks as this act more then any of the rhetoric and posturing by both sides left me with a sour taste in my mouth.
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Just a thought, but could the players develop competing unions from all this? Not a unified union, but competing ones, each vying for the membership of the players (and future players). This really could get very, very interesting.
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