Collective Bargaining Agreement

Roger Goddell

Now that the super bowl is done and football is over for the year what do players and fans look forward to now. Most players would be enjoying the time off before starting training again for the 2011-2012 season. Fans look forward to the draft and wait to see what the best college football players end up playing for. This year, however, it is much different. Players aren’t enjoying vacation and fans aren’t gearing up for the draft. Players, fans, and owners alike are stressing over the new labor deal that the owner’s union and player’s union are trying to get figured out so that there is a season next fall. It’s called the collecting bargaining agreement. What this is exactly is the NFL team owners want to expand the regular season to 18 games reducing the pre-season by 2 games but they don’t want to pay the players anymore and they don’t have to give them more compensation for long lasting head injuries to retired NFL players. I can talk all day about what is going on but I want everyone to hear it for themselves. The following links are to topics that Roger Goodell has addressed that concerns the NFL labor agreement.

Click on this link to listen to what Roger Goodell, Commissioner of the NFL, says the NFL owners are committed to striking labor agreement. http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/story/09000d5d81e1e6e8/article/goodell-owners-committed-to-striking-labor-agreement

Click on this link to watch the overview of Goodells news conference concerning the labor agreement during his Super Bowl conference. http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-super-bowl/09000d5d81e1efba/Commissioner-news-conference-highlights 

Click on this link to read about Goddell saying how he’s “committed” to getting the job done. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d81ded3da/article/commissioner-pledges-to-cut-salary-to-1-if-work-stoppage-hits

Now that you have a better insight into what is going on give me your thoughts. What should the NFL do what should the owners union do, and what should the players do. Here’s my two sense about the whole thing. I get the fact that the owners and the people who work for the NFL want to make more money. There’s a general worry that the best athletes will stop coming to the NFL and go play baseball where it is safer and they can make more money. Owners want to extend the season so they can extend their wallets. I don’t understand why they want more money. The players run the league, without players there is no sport. These owners don’t know how good they have it. Other guys risk their physical well being to entertain people and to make the owners money. The owners need to make the player happy and stop being so selfish. Plan and simple, no NFL season next year, the NFL will lose lots of fans. Come in guys get it figured out, we all want to watch football.

-chieffan81