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NFL Football Revealed on Squib Kick

March 8th, 2006

There will be peace!!!! NFL Owners extend the collective bargaining agreement for six more years

NFL.com wire reports
GRAPEVINE, Texas (March 8, 2006) — Labor peace was restored to the NFL when the owners agreed to the players union’s proposal, extending the collective bargaining agreement for six years.
There were no further details on the agreement, or whether it includes expanded revenue sharing.
The vote was 30-2, with Buffalo and Cincinnati, two low-revenue […]

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March 6th, 2006

Finishing off the cuts

The wave of cuts has subsided and will stay low for the next few days until it becomes clear whether or not there will be an agreement. If there will be, then expect there to be just as many signings as there have been cuts in the last few days. If not, then expect […]

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March 4th, 2006

Labor talks resume, FA delayed

Most people probably heard that the labor talks between the NFL and the player’s union led by Gene Upshaw broke off. A lot of you probably heard that they resumed, and some of you then heard the news that they didn’t go anywhere. Now the few people still following this winding story will be interested […]

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March 2nd, 2006

News roundup

After thinking it over, I decided that a post with about thirty links just wasn’t a good idea. So I installed the del.icio.us extension and tagged the articles.
View the links here. I found lots of goodies pertaining to the recent cuts and labour talks. Lots of quarterbacks getting ditched this year. I’m definitely going […]

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February 28th, 2006

Collective bargaining agreement roundup

First, what would happen if the agreement gets made? Things will remain as they are until about 2013. After that we have to go through all of this crap all over again.
What happens if the agreement doesn’t get made? That’s where things get interesting. The bottom line is that it will have a huge […]

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