stillers4me
05-03-2011, 05:15 AM
No news is bad news. That's the only way to describe the ongoing mess that is the NFL lockout. The silence Monday from the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis was deafening and disheartening. Sadly, it didn't lift its temporary stay of the injunction won by the players in district court last week that would have ended the lockout and put the teams back in business. If it doesn't lift that stay today or at some point this week, the lockout almost certainly will continue into the summer. The big losers then won't be just the players, but football fans everywhere. The owners might even lose, too.
That's the conclusion I reached after spending the weekend at Steelers headquarters for the NFL draft. The team's scouts and coaches -- like their counterparts with all of the teams -- have serious concerns about what will happen to the game if the lockout lasts and wipes out minicamps, organized team activities and perhaps even much of training camp and the exhibition season. Remember, they're football people. They care about the product. They're not the business people who are arguing with the players over how to divide $9.5 billion in annual revenues. It's a shame the business people are making the decisions in this lockout. The football people make so much more sense to me................
read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11123/1143629-87-0.stm
That's the conclusion I reached after spending the weekend at Steelers headquarters for the NFL draft. The team's scouts and coaches -- like their counterparts with all of the teams -- have serious concerns about what will happen to the game if the lockout lasts and wipes out minicamps, organized team activities and perhaps even much of training camp and the exhibition season. Remember, they're football people. They care about the product. They're not the business people who are arguing with the players over how to divide $9.5 billion in annual revenues. It's a shame the business people are making the decisions in this lockout. The football people make so much more sense to me................
read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11123/1143629-87-0.stm