NFLPA unanimously reelect Smith

[OldSchool]

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The worst of the players unions just continues to amaze. With everything that's gone on in recent years the put this joke back in charge. I guess we'll have player discipline decided in the courts for another decade. They seem to prefer that to negotiating.

 

[Psycho_X]

Both sides have had morons in charge for the last decade that has caused the NFL to start losing some of it's popularity lately and both sides reelect or give an extension to both and probably heavy raises. I guess they want to see how far they can push it until their invincible league starts to crumble.

 

[Merlin]

It's definitely crumbling. Product on the field has degraded badly with the refs deciding games, over the top commercials, and too many damn rules/flags/stoppages. Players embarrassing the league and otherwise poorly representing the image the league rode to prominence.

Keep saying it too. Already follow NHL as my favorite sport now, and attend far more games at less cost with way more fun for my hard earned dollar. I can actually watch a game in the NHL without stoppage, stoppage, stoppage, stoppage filled with commercials, stupidity and refs bumbling around. It's a fast game with action, big hits, and excitement.

The owners' greed will definitely be their undoing, and ten to fifteen years down the road this will be a flag football type game that more closely resembles basketball. And at that point I won't be tuning in.

 

[bubbaramfan]

Another nail in the coffin for the NFL. Players union will lobby for less OTA, training camp and pre-season, resulting in a more pathetic product on the field, and thus less attendance and less veiwers.

And neither will have a clue.

 

[SteezyEndo]

 

[Tron]

 

[LumberTubs]

I get that player safety is important but the limits on contact that coaches have with their players (thanks to the union) widens a gap between college football and the NFL that's already getting wider because of the lack of "pro style" offenses at college level.

If I were a GM I'd be looking more and more at drafting certain positions from pro style college offenses only. QB and OL mainly.

This game is gonna eat itself sooner or later

 

[CanadaRam]

Sometimes I feel that the business side of the NFL is more like a version of the Keystone cops (bumbling all over the place).
With all the criticism of Goodell, I do think that he has an upper hand on Smith.

2 that will probably both keep their heads in the sand. Have a strike/lock-out and after half a season lost try to increase prices so that the fans pay the price once again.

 

[DaveFan'51]

Both sides have had morons in charge for the last decade that has caused the NFL to start losing some of it's popularity lately and both sides reelect or give an extension to both and probably heavy raises. I guess they want to see how far they can push it until their invincible league starts to crumble.

JMO, But, I think, until there is a change at the top of both the League and the Union, Both Football as a Sport and it's popularity are going to suffer!!

 

[Hannibal Ram]

Both sides are too arrogant and too short-sided to do anything but kill the cashcow that is the NFL!!!

 

[Jacobarch]

It's definitely crumbling. Product on the field has degraded badly with the refs deciding games, over the top commercials, and too many damn rules/flags/stoppages. Players embarrassing the league and otherwise poorly representing the image the league rode to prominence.

Keep saying it too. Already follow NHL as my favorite sport now, and attend far more games at less cost with way more fun for my hard earned dollar. I can actually watch a game in the NHL without stoppage, stoppage, stoppage, stoppage filled with commercials, stupidity and refs bumbling around. It's a fast game with action, big hits, and excitement.

The owners' greed will definitely be their undoing, and ten to fifteen years down the road this will be a flag football type game that more closely resembles basketball. And at that point I won't be tuning in.

Greed on owners and players alike. There's no difference. I'm sick of hearing about these guys saying it's hard to get by on millions of dollars a year. While the UDFA makes the league minimum and keeps to himself. Same goes for the owners. They only care about dollar signs rather than putting a good product on the field ... They're messing with the foundation of how the NFL became one of the biggest sports in the world. Reminds me of what's happened with the UFC. but at a less rapid rate.