NFLPA Telling Players to Expect Lockout in 2011, Save a Quarter of Their Salary in 2010

yeah, they are going to blow it up for sure. enjoy the superbowl because its on the endangered species list

Ridiculous that a league swimming in money is too **** stupid and greedy to figure this out. **** ‘em. Real people have real issues to deal with. If there is no 2011 season, I’ll certainly not watch when they come back.

Like they do not make enough money???  Of course you could say the same thing about the owners.  I actually like paying retired players a bit and 2% is not bad.  Problem is ticket prices continue to go up it is time for the league to say enough is enough.  The ticket prices need to go down and players need to be paid less.  Then owners may give monies to retired players and possible more to those who have life threatning injuries or illnesses.  We as fans need to just get Direct TV and stop going to the ballpark.  Yes it is fun to tailgate and see the game live.  But until we stop showing up prices go up and players and owners battle.  Maybe it is time for a long strike?  Boy will I miss it though!

At least do something sensible, like curbing the ridiculous contracts for high-draft choice rookies who haven’t proven themselves yet in the NFL.

please lockout, its the lazy garbage that wants to be paid millions before performing or earning their pay that has ruined the game. ruined it. look at how trash basketball is, million dollar salaries for the majority of players who blow. what is the common denominator between them, lazy, immature and self glorifying urbans

please lockout, its the lazy garbage that wants to be paid millions before performing or earning their pay that has ruined the game. ruined it. look at how trash basketball is, million dollar salaries for the majority of players who blow. what is the common denominator between them, lazy, immature and self glorifying urbans

Good riddance to the NFL. I for one wouldn’t care (though it’s obvious from the posts that I’m hardly alone). I can’t wait to see the parasites on TV with endless propaganda pieces on how these guys are suffering. Maybe we’ll get a league that you can afford to see in person. Dream on, likelier we’ll get pay-per-view so the players can make their extra couple of million. You know, to put ‘bread on the table’.

I’m tired of letting labor strife in sports leagues give me anxiety. If they play…I’ll watch…if not then I guess I will just find something else to do…period. This is not a catastrophe and with each labor disagreement a better prespective is reached by the average joe.

if they try the payperview i am out, and i will cancel my cable package too because sports are the only thing of value on tv. i mean it, i will quit.

I for one find it rather humorous for a league that’s practically printing money to argue over which faction, millionaire players or billionaire owners get the biggest slice of the pie. To go the doomsday route of a lockout is to cut off your nose to spite your face. And in these dire economic times when millions are unemployed and millions more are struggling to make ends meet, the dead last thing they want to hear about is a hissy fit by a sports league over greed.

However, the truly sad part of this sordid little drama is this: The lockout will happen, NFL junkies from coast to coast will be deprived of their drug for who knows how long, and when football finally comes back, fans will be on their knees begging for their fix faster than you can say "Can I have some more", regardless of how much extra money their have to spend, either in jacked up ticket prices at the stadium or increased cable/satellite rates of packages or pay-per-view at home. Make no mistake, you will pay, you have no choice, addicts always pay to satisfy their addiction. And who wins in the end? The NFL of course. You know it, I know it, and, more importantly, the players and owners know it.