Around the NFL- Week 3

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Originally Posted by NC_Skins

No he doesn't. He bargains on behalf of the owners. The owners have the final vote whether to approve a deal or not. Thought you would have gathered all this from the owners lockout with the players.

I thought that was because it was owners against players with Roger and the owners against Demaurice smith and the players union (Foxworth, Saturday, etc)

I think refs are a different case, because they're a whole other union and aren't owned by the players or the owners, their owned by the league office which is roger.

I read a peter king column a few weeks back talking about this and peter said something along the lines of "...if the NFL won't budge on signing these referees then an upset owner like Jerry Jones may just go ahead and say 'here roger let me just cut them a check and get this over with', because he doesn't want his team losing over these officials..."