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  • Romes
    Registered User
    • Jul 2002
    • 5766

    Owners Terminate CBA Early



    Sounds important. Can anyone explain the implications?
    Originally posted by paladin warrior
    RALPH is drove me nut.
  • alohabillsfan
    Registered User
    • Sep 2003
    • 3206

    #2
    Owner opt out of CBA!

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    Posted: 4 minutes ago
    NFL owners opt out of CBA
    National Football League


    The NFL issued the following release this morning:

    The current Collective Bargaining Agreement, initially negotiated in 1993, has been extended on several occasions, most recently in March 2006. The 2006 extension, which could have continued through the 2012 season, gave both the NFL and the NFLPA an option to shorten the deal by one or two years.

    NFL clubs today voted unanimously to exercise that option and to continue negotiating a new agreement for the 2011 season and beyond that will work better for both the clubs and the players.

    What does this mean to fans and games on the field?
    Even without another agreement, NFL football will be played without threat of interruption for at least the next three seasons. The 2008 and 2009 seasons will be played with a salary cap. If there is no new agreement before the 2010 season, that season will be played without a salary cap under rules that also limit the free agency rights of the players. If not extended, the agreement would expire at the end of the 2010 league year.

    We are resolved to do our best to achieve a fair agreement that will allow labor peace to continue through and beyond the 2011 season.

    What are the issues?
    A collective bargaining agreement has to work for both sides. If the agreement provides inadequate incentives to invest in the future, it will not work for management or labor. And, in the context of a professional sports league, if the agreement does not afford all clubs an opportunity to be competitive, the league can lose its appeal.

    The NFL earns very substantial revenues. But the clubs are obligated by the CBA to spend substantially more than half their revenues – almost $4.5 billion this year alone -- on player costs. In addition, as we have explained to the union, the clubs must spend significant and growing amounts on stadium construction, operations and improvements to respond to the interests and demands of our fans. The current labor agreement does not adequately recognize the costs of generating the revenues of which the players receive the largest share; nor does the agreement recognize that those costs have increased substantially -- and at an ever increasing rate -- in recent years during a difficult economic climate in our country. As a result, under the terms of the current agreement, the clubs’ incentive to invest in the game is threatened.

    There are substantial other elements of the deal that simply are not working. For example, as interpreted by the courts, the current CBA effectively prohibits the clubs from recouping bonuses paid to players who subsequently breach their player contacts or refuse to perform. That is simply irrational and unfair to both fans and players who honor their contracts. Also irrational is that in the current system some rookies are able to secure contracts that pay them more than top proven veterans.

    Our objective is to fix these problems in a new CBA, one that will provide adequate incentives to grow the game, ensure the unparalleled competitive balance that has sustained our fans’ interest, and afford the players fair and increasing compensation and benefits.

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    • DraftBoy
      Administrator
      • Jul 2002
      • 107442

      #3
      Re: Owner opt out of CBA!

      So what do we want to see in a new CBA??
      COMING SOON...
      Originally posted by Dr.Lecter
      We were both drunk and Hillary did not look that bad at 2 AM, I swear!!!!!!

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      • DMBcrew36
        Registered User
        • Feb 2005
        • 5096

        #4
        Re: Owner opt out of CBA!

        Please explain how Ralph has lost it? Thanks.

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        • Dr. Lecter
          Zero for Zero!
          • Mar 2003
          • 67946

          #5
          Re: Owner opt out of CBA!

          Originally posted by DMBcrew36
          Please explain how Ralph has lost it? Thanks.
          :sarcasm:
          Originally posted by mysticsoto
          Lecter is right in everything he said.

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          • alohabillsfan
            Registered User
            • Sep 2003
            • 3206

            #6
            Re: Owner opt out of CBA!

            That was sarcasm based ojn Ralph being only 1 of 2 owners (I believe) that voted against the current CBA.

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            • clumping platelets

              #7
              Re: Owners Terminate CBA Early

              "Deion Charges"

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              • Dujek
                Hall of Fame Zoner
                • Jan 2008
                • 7806

                #8
                Re: Owners Terminate CBA Early

                This should be interesting...

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                • Jan Reimers
                  Thank You, Terry and Kim, for Saving the Bills. Now, Work on the Sabres.
                  • May 2003
                  • 17353

                  #9
                  Re: Owner opt out of CBA!

                  Originally posted by DraftBoy
                  So what do we want to see in a new CBA??
                  Less than the current 59.5% of gross revenues going to the players, and a more generous revenue sharing agreement between the small and large market teams.
                  Should have known, way back in 1960 when we drafted Richie Lucas Number 1, that this would be a long, hard ride. But who could have known it would be THIS bad?

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                  • alohabillsfan
                    Registered User
                    • Sep 2003
                    • 3206

                    #10
                    Re: Owner opt out of CBA!

                    Originally posted by DraftBoy
                    So what do we want to see in a new CBA??

                    Rookie cap! ( a real one not the slating process used now).

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                    • justasportsfan
                      Registered User
                      • Jul 2002
                      • 71601

                      #11
                      Re: Owners Terminate CBA Early

                      haha! JOnes and co. got owned by a senile crusty old man and the clueless bengals owner.
                      sacrifice1
                      https://theinterviewwithgod.com/video/

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                      • justasportsfan
                        Registered User
                        • Jul 2002
                        • 71601

                        #12
                        Re: Owners Terminate CBA Early

                        Kelsay, Dockery, Aaron ,walker were happy about the CBA. They all got overpaid because of it.
                        sacrifice1
                        https://theinterviewwithgod.com/video/

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                        • TacklingDummy
                          Unreachable Douche
                          • Jul 2002
                          • 71725

                          #13
                          Re: Owners Terminate CBA Early

                          Originally posted by justasportsfan
                          Kelsay, Dockery, Aaron ,walker were happy about the CBA. They all got overpaid because of it.
                          That's just on the Bills.

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                          • ddaryl
                            Everything I post is sexual inuendo
                            • Jan 2005
                            • 10714

                            #14
                            Re: Owners Terminate CBA Early

                            Originally posted by justasportsfan
                            haha! JOnes and co. got owned by a senile crusty old man and the clueless bengals owner.

                            I don't think Jerry got owned at all.. He is still getting 50K licenses out of fans just for the right to buy tickets at $300

                            Jerry is still laughing all the way to the bank. the only thing that pisses me off abou tthat is he is maliciously ripping the game from the average american in the name of profits.

                            the game should be accessible by the majority of society and tax brackets not just the elite, or the ones to dumb to realize there is more intelligent things to do with your money at those prices.

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                            • djjimkelly
                              Registered User
                              • Apr 2003
                              • 7045

                              #15
                              Re: Owners Terminate CBA Early

                              ill say this under the salary cap structure the bills have never actually been good.

                              we was solid in 1998 i do believe we would have won super bowl in 1999 if not for homerun throwback.

                              but the bills was a better team before the salary cap era.

                              forget that teams can spend whatever if no cap

                              players are not free agents for 6 years now if there is no cap this means less player movement this means when u hit on a DP in all likely hood u can keep him for many many years

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