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Published on 03/04/2011 at Fri Mar 04 12:18.
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NFL, NFLPA avoid lockout with seven-day extension

Posted Fri Mar 4th by

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, left, leaves CBA negotiations on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, left, leaves CBA negotiations on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

Lockout avoided — or, at least, delayed.

The NFL and NFL Player’s Association have agreed to extend Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations through next Friday March 11 at 5:00 p.m., giving the owners and players another week to reach an agreement and settle their differences.

It also means roster moves (effectively, the start of the new league year) will be delayed until Friday.

Similar to the negotiations that took place in 2006, real work seems to be getting done at the eleventh hour. Are they close? Who knows. But it was earlier reported, as they were negotiating for this extension over the past two days, that the owners and players had to at least agree to some terms before this extension could be realized. That’s enough to suggest they’re making steps in the right direction.

  • crazykid

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  • Pablio

    “Hey Roger, how come we can't get chicks like Champ and John?”

  • 5280

    ya they're making “real progress” because the league and all its greedy2 faced owners got found out. that broadcast contract bullshit is whats making the league actually listen now. thats what happens when you try to sneek 4 billion under the table and not give that players a cut WHAT SO EVER even though you know it was written in the current CBA contract. i bet now in the next couple of weeks there will be a new CBA cuz the league will be forced to pay the players their cut of the broadcast contracts. After that happens the league wont have any back up money for a lockout so theyll have to come to some sort of an agreement. goodells a crook and so are all the owners, including bowlen. its funny how, ealier, when the NFLPA asked the owners to open their books they refused even though they swear up and down they dont make enough money to pay them what they want, and now, a few days after a judge confirmed that they had been stiffing the player and had planned to go into a lockout for 2 years, all of the sudden they have absolutely no problem opening their books. Things that make you go hmmmmmm. Even though everyone, players and owners alike, is being greedy, the league has taken it a step further by being untrustworthy and cut throat. the player are being greedy thats for sure, but at least their being honest. Paul Tagliabu is probably pissed that he actually let goodell have his job just for him to turn the NFL into a shit storm. The shame in all of this is that we the fans are the ones suffering over it. We just love the game of football. even after all of this crookedness has been exposed, im still gonna watch year in and year out cuz i love this game that much. i grew up on it, my paretns grew up on it, and their parents grew up on it. This game is an american tradition and a couple of rich fat cats screwing eachother over isnt gonna change that. it would be so nice to “It's okay, ill just boycott the league and wont watch football anymore,” but i cant lie to myself. i cant do that. i gotta have my football. during the season im cathin all the games and watching all the game breakdown and during the off season i got my eyes glued to the NFL network and im online looking to see what the latest moves are with FA, the senior bowl, the east west shrine game, the combine, the draft, and training camp. im a junky and i cant stop. and i know theres many more out there in america just like me.

  • anthony33

    Here's the bottom line:
    The players make a ton of money. The owners make a ton on money. Figure it out.

    The players are the very best in the world in which maybe 1% of college football players ever reach that level. They deserve to get paid.

    The owners put up the money to buy a business. They purpose of a business is to make money and they have doen a great job of that over the years. They also own the risk. They in it for the long haul, so what they do has to go beyond the next couple of years.

    Again, they are both making a ton of money. It should not be that thought to figure it out.

  • td30ismvp

    Idiots, greedy incompetent idiots. 18 games/rookie scale, nah it all comes down to $$$ now we won't see any kind of football until they start losing the money they are arguing about in September. Just like I tweeted back to Merriman…don't forget who paid for the bones you are fighting over.

  • TD30isMVP

    Idiots, greedy incompetent idiots. 18 games/rookie scale, nah it all comes down to $$$ now we won't see any kind of football until they start losing the money they are arguing about in September. Just like I tweeted back to Merriman…don't forget who paid for the bones you are fighting over.