Pumchavas28
02-26-2008, 12:02 PM
Just saw this and found it interesting....
http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/41230 (http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/41230)
Jerry: Owners may opt out of CBA (http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/41230)
Posted: Tuesday February 26, 2008 04:04AM ET
Cowboys (http://www.fannation.com/tags/show_tag/6) owner and general manager Jerry Jones believes there is a good chance ownership will opt out of the current labor agreement with the NFL Players Association by the November deadline. Jones did not give the Cowboys (http://www.fannation.com/tags/show_tag/6)' opinion of the deal. Several owners, however, such as Denver's Pat Bowlen and New England's Robert Kraft, have expressed dissatisfaction. Twenty-four of 32 votes would be needed to keep the collective bargaining agreement in place. If the owners opt out, the current structure will stay in place through 2010; 2011 would be an uncapped season. NFLPA president Gene Upshaw has said once there is an uncapped year, a salary cap would never return.
And while I don't like Peter King, the salary cap issue could have more to do with this, than anything else....
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/peter_king/02/24/combine/2.html (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/peter_king/02/24/combine/2.html)
Sounds like the United Football League is going to happen in 2009. Prospective UFL commissioner Michael Huyghue told agents the other day it will be an eight-team league (he said six owners, including Mark Cuban, are already in place), beginning in August 2009. The details were sketchy from there, but some agents reported that the minimum salary would be $75,000, the league would go after existing NFL personnel people and assistant coaches to be the league's GMs and head coaches, and the league would try to sign some of the 30th through 43rd players on NFL rosters for slightly more money than they'd make in the big league.
Sure getting rid of the Salary Cap could hurt a few small market teams like Jacksonville & a few other teams, but it would KILL the UFL.....
Thoughts?????
http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/41230 (http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/41230)
Jerry: Owners may opt out of CBA (http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/41230)
Posted: Tuesday February 26, 2008 04:04AM ET
Cowboys (http://www.fannation.com/tags/show_tag/6) owner and general manager Jerry Jones believes there is a good chance ownership will opt out of the current labor agreement with the NFL Players Association by the November deadline. Jones did not give the Cowboys (http://www.fannation.com/tags/show_tag/6)' opinion of the deal. Several owners, however, such as Denver's Pat Bowlen and New England's Robert Kraft, have expressed dissatisfaction. Twenty-four of 32 votes would be needed to keep the collective bargaining agreement in place. If the owners opt out, the current structure will stay in place through 2010; 2011 would be an uncapped season. NFLPA president Gene Upshaw has said once there is an uncapped year, a salary cap would never return.
And while I don't like Peter King, the salary cap issue could have more to do with this, than anything else....
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/peter_king/02/24/combine/2.html (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/peter_king/02/24/combine/2.html)
Sounds like the United Football League is going to happen in 2009. Prospective UFL commissioner Michael Huyghue told agents the other day it will be an eight-team league (he said six owners, including Mark Cuban, are already in place), beginning in August 2009. The details were sketchy from there, but some agents reported that the minimum salary would be $75,000, the league would go after existing NFL personnel people and assistant coaches to be the league's GMs and head coaches, and the league would try to sign some of the 30th through 43rd players on NFL rosters for slightly more money than they'd make in the big league.
Sure getting rid of the Salary Cap could hurt a few small market teams like Jacksonville & a few other teams, but it would KILL the UFL.....
Thoughts?????