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Maybe they now realize that a whole team of Philidelphia lawyers may not be better than many years of experience and a Buffalo mentality.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Buffalo Bills owner Ralph C. Wilson Jr. was ridiculed in the national media two years ago for saying he didn’t understand how the National Football League could approve its labor agreement with the players union.
This week, NFL owners are hunkered down in meetings to figure out how they can change the labor deal, which many of them have come to loathe.
Can you say vindication? That’s what Wilson is feeling over the fact only he and Cincinnati owner Mike Brown voted against the collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Players Association.
Wilson has gone from out of touch to ahead of the curve.
“That took some courage,” acknowledged Atlanta Falcons President Rich McKay. “National media-wise, they took some heat for it. I don’t think they did internally. I think everyone respected what they said.”
Wilson refuses to gloat over the issue, and he says he wasn’t surprised he was portrayed as clueless.
“That’s understandable because the vote was 30-2, and people thought, ‘Wilson must be out there by himself on a canoe,’ ” Wilson said Monday from his office in Detroit. (He’s letting his team executives handle league business this week.)
“When the proposal was passed out to us it was rushed out,” Wilson said. “We had about 45 minutes to consider it. There was a lot more to it that we never saw and we didn’t realize at the time. In sum and substance, we voted on the thing, and I didn’t think we should.”
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Buffalo Bills owner Ralph C. Wilson Jr. was ridiculed in the national media two years ago for saying he didn’t understand how the National Football League could approve its labor agreement with the players union.
This week, NFL owners are hunkered down in meetings to figure out how they can change the labor deal, which many of them have come to loathe.
Can you say vindication? That’s what Wilson is feeling over the fact only he and Cincinnati owner Mike Brown voted against the collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Players Association.
Wilson has gone from out of touch to ahead of the curve.
“That took some courage,” acknowledged Atlanta Falcons President Rich McKay. “National media-wise, they took some heat for it. I don’t think they did internally. I think everyone respected what they said.”
Wilson refuses to gloat over the issue, and he says he wasn’t surprised he was portrayed as clueless.
“That’s understandable because the vote was 30-2, and people thought, ‘Wilson must be out there by himself on a canoe,’ ” Wilson said Monday from his office in Detroit. (He’s letting his team executives handle league business this week.)
“When the proposal was passed out to us it was rushed out,” Wilson said. “We had about 45 minutes to consider it. There was a lot more to it that we never saw and we didn’t realize at the time. In sum and substance, we voted on the thing, and I didn’t think we should.”
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