(NFL) Players' Executive Committee to Meet Monday

Source: AP

By BARRY WILNER

NEW YORK (AP) - Though a vote to end the four-month lockout isn't a certainty, the players association's executive committee will meet in Washington on Monday.

A person with knowledge of the NFLPA's plans told The Associated Press on Saturday that a vote could happen, "it just depends on what guys feel about what happened this weekend ... but (they) are not committing that the executive committee is going to vote on anything."

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the association has not revealed its plans.

Owners approved a tentative agreement to end the four-month lockout on Thursday. But the players said they need more information before they can vote.


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Think of the rank and file, sitting there, hearing what the owners have offered (minimums in the mid-6-figure range, players guaranteed 50% of the 11-figure package, etc.) and the exec committee trying to explain why they should turn this down. A strange setting altogether.

Considering the average NFL career is three and a half seasons, players have a responsibility to themselves and their families to maximize their earning potential, especially when the league grossed $9 billion last year.

get it done already you bunch of over paid cry-babys.

Who do you think you are?...Congress?

Source: AP

By BARRY WILNER

NEW YORK (AP) - A vote on a settlement to the lockout is what every NFL fan wants. Nobody is sure when that might happen.

The players' executive committee will meet Monday in Washington after lawyers worked through the weekend on issues that are holding up an agreement with the owners. Several people with knowledge of the meeting have told The Associated Press that no vote to recommend a deal is certain Monday.

The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the players association has not revealed its plans.

Owners approved a tentative agreement to end the four-month lockout on Thursday. But the players said they need more information before they can vote, and took issue with portions of the proposal, including the lack of an opt-out clause. The players have suggested an opt-out after seven years of the 10-year agreement; owners opted out of the last collective bargaining agreement in 2008, eventually leading to the lockout that began March 12.

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Now we can get on with the business of states and municipalities giving corporate welfare to NFL teams again. I like football but everybody has their limit; and I cannot support laying off teachers so that NFL owners can collect millions to subsidize their lifetyles. And if an owner doesn't get their way, they threaten to move to another locale that will pay the bribe.

Isn't the problem, to begin with, the practice of states giving bribery to corporations like NFL teams?