Nobody Will Escape Mr. Goodell's Wrath

BREAKING: NFL Owners Opt Out of Collective Bargaining Agreement

Maury posted 5/20/2008 from bizoffootball.com

No Work Stoppage. Salary Cap in Place for 2008 and 2009 Seasons As expected, the NFL officially notified the NFLPA that the owners have opted out of the current collective bargaining agreement. The vote was unanimous. The owners extended the CBA in March of 2006, which could have continued through the 2012, but had the option to opt out of the agreement by November of this year. The NFL ...

Owners Also Talking About Adding 17th Regular Season Game

FanHouse found this 5/20/2008 on blog.washingtonpost.com

ATLANTA--NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell just conducted a news conference and said the owners voted to exercise the reopener clause in the labor deal because it was clear to them that the agreement wasn't working and they saw no need to wait until ...

OWNERS VOTE 32-0 TO OPT OUT OF CBA

SPORTSbyBROOKS found this 5/20/2008 on www.profootballtalk.com

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 ...

Goodell: No independent investigation planned

Goal-Line Stand found this 5/21/2008 on www.boston.com

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.  ...

Here we grow again? NFL considering 17th game

Women Like Sports found this 5/21/2008 on sports.espn.go.com

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell raised the possibility of having a 17th regular-season game as an option to help settle some of the league's future labor problems.