NFL Owners Want New Deal

 
The NFL's franchise owners vote to end their labor deal with the players' union early, making the 2009 season the final one with a salary cap. [link]

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Atlanta Falcons Sign Matt Ryan

The Atlanta Falcons have announced the signing of first-round draft pick Matt Ryan , the third overall pick in last month's NFL draft. Adam Schefter of NFL Network is reporting that the contract is a six-year, $72 million deal, with $34.75 million ...
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What a difference two years make. In March 2006, thirty of the league’s owners voted in favor of a Collective Bargaining Agreement that gives 59 percent of the total football revenues to the players. Now, all of them have voted to pull the plug ...
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ATLANTA -- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell just wrapped up his final press conference at the owners meeting, and said the league has no plans to conduct an independent investigation of the New England Patriots videotaping procedures at this time.  ...
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The Falcons Throw Enormous Wads Of Cash At Matt Ryan

When it came right down to it, new General Manager Tom Dimitroff was not about to take agent Tom Condon's guff. Knowing his clients' history of holding out, Dimitroff hit Condon over the head with a bottle of vodka, threw him in Daren Stone's ...
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