Apr 3, 2011
Important up coming dates:
The Players association is waiting till the 6th to get a hearing in court about weather the owners locking them out is legal.
The Teams will be drafting players from college on April 28-30
And the Cheerleader squads have already begun tryouts in at least 6 major cities.
Apr 2, 2011
A note about the $$$
Samoa
Liberia
Greenland
Fiji
Mongolia
Liechtenstein
Bermuda
Armenia
Afghanistan
Georgia
So you can see why this is such a big deal.
Also so as not to end on a down note:
Pretty girls!
Mar 31, 2011
Sticky: NFL Lockout 101
The root of all fun, or something... |
Mar 30, 2011
The NFL Draft goes on:
On Thursday April 28th the NFL teams will draft the top players from college into thier ranks. No contracts can be signed and the useual trading of players for draft picks can not happen so there will be fewer suprises this year.
Here is a list of the draft order for the first round. Who do you want your team to take?
The real victims of the lockout:
And maybe even these poor girls...
Mar 29, 2011
Health care for the players
The big thing that worries me about this lock out is the heath care situation for the players. I know that I love a very violent sport and most of the highlights on ESPN every week for football involve a player getting hit so hard if he was an average human being he would be put in the hospital. And while most NFL players are NOT average human beings they are still humans.
Hundreds of players last year ended the season with a bad injury and were supposed to be getting treatment with trained staff to recover. But with this lock out they dont have access to the teams medical facilities. The NFLPA did get most players onto the COBRA medical plan but this is a stop gap situation, just a step to let players seeking medical support to be able to put down that they do have insurance. But the costs for it are huge and I hate seeing these younger guys blowing so much of thier savings on it.
Players on any team that did not make the playoffs have gone to this point 3.5 months since they received a paycheck. And the off season checks that used to start coming in around now for participating in workouts and OTAs are not going to be there until the CBA gets signed.
While I side with the players on most things in this disagreement this is the one thing they are doing (and i think HAVE to do) that bothers me.
I hope the next CBA has a clause in it saying that even if there is a lock out or impasse again in a few years the teams will keep all of the players on a heath care plan for several extra months while the impasse is resolved.
Mar 28, 2011
What is at stake?
An 18-game season, rookie wage scale, and improvement in player health benefits are important, but, how the 9 BILLION DOLLAR pool of revenue gets divided is the big question.