The NFL Lockout is officially on! There won't be any free angency, no training camp and forget pre-season if players and owners cant come to an agreement soon. The collective barganing agreement ran out at 11:59 p.m ET March 11, 2011, and the players filed a lawsuit against the owners. Then the owners locked out the players from practicing and working out. The sides were far apart on several issues, but it all revolves around money. here are five major issues both sides the owners and the players argue about in the lawsuit and mediators:
1) Season Length: Players want an 18 game season to make more money by selling tickets and increase television revenue.
2) Salaries: Players want more money that the owners dont want to give.
3) Revenue Sharing: They had disputes over how much money they should give to federal and state taxes.
4) Financial Info: The owners wont let the players see the past accounting reports and the players are mad because they want to know how much they're really making.
5) Rookie Salaries: The players and owners agreed to how much the rookies should make.
Im going for the players because I think that since the players do all the playing and work in camps and all season that they deserve more money than what the owners are giving them.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ycn-8051788
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By the way, the NFL lockout is over. You make it sound like it isn't.