Rock out with your Lockout

The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) is declaring tomorrow (Tuesday January 18th, 2011) as "Let Us Play Day" to heighten awareness that if a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) is not in place by the spring, the owners are planning to lock-out the players, putting the 2011 NFL season in jeopardy.



If you're not familiar with the dynamics of the current lockout situation, there is a good read up HERE (http://www.canalstreetchronicles.com/2011/1/17/1934363/rock-out-with-your-lockout-nfl-work-stoppage-for-dummies).

If you'd like to support the players, Sign the petition (http://www.nfllockout.com/)!

Where can we vote for owners?

Where can we let both parties know that we don't support either side over the other, and they need all need to get their collective b**** a**es to the table and work out a deal.

Seriously, stupid idiots trying to play fan support against each other. I have no interest in who gets more money, I just want to watch football.

Where can we let both parties know that we don't support either side over the other, and they need all need to get their collective b**** a**es to the table and work out a deal.

Seriously, stupid idiots trying to play fan support against each other. I have no interest in who gets more money, I just want to watch football.

Brilliant.

I'd also like to vote for a cap-less NFL and Sunday Ticket being offered by all cable providers. Where can I sign that petition?

I agree with everything said by CRedskinsRule. **** them all.

The NBA and the NFL might have a lock out next fall. If both have a lock out at the same time, the US economy could take a hit.
All of the people out of work and the revenue the local economies count on from these games could send us into another recession. Playing with fire.
I do not claim to know all of the details on any of the sides, but I am very against expanding the NFL schedule. That is stupid. Why does the NFL insist on messing with a good thing? Greed!

Owners and players make way more money than they should now as it is. Why don't we move the NFL in the direction of the financial markets and allow us to get kick backs, "dividends", since we are the force that lines their pockets with green in the first place? That is the petition I want to sign. Until the day we have meaningful jobs like teachers, police officers and firemen get paid the same as these overpaid athletes, I will not be happy. I work just as hard as these guys who get to have fun for a minuscule percentage of their salary. Wait, am I sounding a tad bit bitter? Oops....

The owners are the ones who have opted out of the current CBA agreement. They voted to opt out 2 years early.

I'm siding with the players because I feel that the owners have dug themselves into their own hole. The owners want to keep the same percentage of sharing, but decrease what qualifies as sharable revenue with the players. The players take the biggest health risk by playing the game, and should be compensated fairly... It's up to everyone to figure out what, "fairly" is.

I'm with CRedskinsRule. I don't side with one side or the other, I just want to see football in the fall. Both sides are greedy, and they both need to get over it.

Selfishly, as a fan I want both sides to just forget about themselves and think of the fans and avoid a lockout.

But, when I step back...I support the players