NFLPA

Al Davis - Raiders Owner

Jerry Jones - Cowboy Owner

In the last few blogs I have been talking about the Player Union the owner’s union and the collective bargaining agreement going on between the two parties through this offseason. Now I just want to give you a better insight into what the actual player union is and then go into the owner’s side of the business equation. The player’s union is called the National Football League Players Association or NFLPA. It is the labor union of the players in the NFL that was founded in 1956 but didn’t get its complete collective bargaining agreement in 1968. After a lost strike in 1987, the union was formally decertified, converting into a professional association in order to pursue antitrust litigation designed to win free agency for its members. When that tactic worked it reformed as a union and resumed collective bargaining with the league in 1993.

Click this link to read the whole article on Wikipedia about the entire history of the player’s union dating back to when it first started. Very interesting stuff, any football fan and/or business men should really find this interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League_Players_Association

Clark Hunt - Chiefs Owner

The owners, like I stated in the previous blog, just want to extend the season to 18 games generating more revenue for their city, team, and to improve their personal pocket book. There is no CEO of the NFL. It is a public company where the owners of each team have rights and the commissioner overseas all the actions going on in the league from trades and free agency, to business deals, to the punishment of players and teams. Owners believe that they have the most power in the NFL because they “foot the bill” for the games to happen but then ultimately get paid back in the end. (There greedy snakes and need to stop crying about it and just let the men play the game and let the fans who work hard to make money to watch these games watch what they pay for.) Like anything else, the NFL is a business and people always want more, more, more and these owners believe that they can get what they want. I hope a deal can be reached by March 4 so that we have football next season.