Though we have every intention of keeping you fully updated regarding every development in the unfolding labor-mama drama between the NFL and the players union, the league has taken the unusual step of launching its own site that will focus solely on the labor issues.
The name of the site is NFLLabor.com. Those of you who don’t feel like typing that address into your browsers can otherwise click here.
The most recent entry is dated February 11 (which for the purposes of building an audience might as well be dated “1965"), and its title quotes Commissioner Roger Goodell’s remarks from his pre-Super Bowl press conference.
That’s encouraging. Of course, the NFLPA would contend that the league has added the following clause to that sentence: “on our own terms, or else.”
We’ll be monitoring the new site and the NFLPA web site and all other sources of information regarding this matter in the hopes of providing you the most unbiased and objective look at the labor situation.
Actually, that’s not entirely true. We have a bias. We want football. And we plan to hold all responsible parties publicly accountable if they take our football away in 2011 because they don’t know how to properly divvy up a pie that is about to explode given the recent gains in the popularity of the sport.
If the former Commissioner whom many believe created this mess by pushing through a bad deal so that he could retire in 2006 (and many people around the league genuinely believe this) is still getting $3.3 million per year, it means that there’s still more than enough money to go around for everyone.
So don’t make us pull a Moe Howard and start clunking heads together, NFL and NFLPA. Work this thing out. Now.
