Report: Progress Being Made in NFL/NFLPA Labor Negotiations

I refuse to write about this trash, so you can read what a real lawyer, Mike Florio at Pro Football Talk, has to say about the matter. If you know me at all, I’ve been extremely critical of both the owners and players throughout this whole process, and I refuse to bicker about it anymore, get excited, or jump to any conclusions, because that has done me no good. However, it sounds like the key issue at hand–the revenue split–is making good progress, as Mark Maske noted on Twitter earlier and PFT reciprocates.

“When the NFL and the NFLPA* burned the midnight oil last Thursday night and then decided to catch essentially the first flight on Friday out of Minnesota, the parties risked squandering the progress that had been made.  One of the big questions as the big players reconvened today in Manhattan after six days off was whether they would pick up where they left off, or whether it would take time to get back to where they were last week.

Apparently, the answer is the former.”

Well, there you have it. Some have set a deadline at July 15th, which is next week (3 days AR, or after the release of NCAA Football 12). The NFL is seriously at risk of losing money, not so much its fan base. But the money is really critical here, because it could turn out to be about $200 million or $300 million per week starting with the pre-season. People always say how those games are meaningless, but they certainly aren’t meaningless to guys like Terrell Davis who wouldn’t have even made the Broncos without the pre-season, or the owners who are cashing in just like a regular season game.

The clock has been ticking for upwards of 115 days, and I’m caring less and less every day, but that doesn’t mean I’m not ready for a deal to get done ASAP. Get it done, boys! I’ll call them men when they deserve it!