Stop posting WWE vids in the NFL thread..

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No more I promise :) Just proving a point.

No chance the lockout ends by June 3 as the NFL owners won a huge court case against the players due to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowing the NFL's request of a permanent stay of the lockout.

The players managed to win a lot of lower case battles that lifted the lockout for a while but the new ruling puts everything back to original status of the lockout.

The retired players branch of the union also won a court case in Minnesota that will force the owners to create a new proposal for a deal.

To be fair, the lower courts the players won at tended to be pro-union so it made sense for the NFL to find the strongest pro-owners court for appeals.

TAKE THIS ALL THE WAY TO THE SUPREME COURT! Is football even constitutional? *DUM DUM DUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM*

Fucking hate this..

Yup, the owners file suit to not play...awesome.

Actually, I can see one being done by then IF the NFLPA, and especially DeMaurice Smith, realize they have no chance of winning the appeal. He insists on acting smug without realizing that the wording in the papers on the stay almost flat out says the judges side with the league. The NFL knows it and wants to do a "fair" deal, the PA now needs to know this before they lose big time.

So basically, if the NFLPA realizes that if they wait until they lose on appeal that they'll have to accept almost whatever the NFL offers, they can take the time between now and then to work out a deal that both sides will actually like.

But I get the feeling Smith is going to continue to go the "cocky" route and keep trying to swing his dick around. I side with the PA, but Smith is a total fuckhead

Well so much for that. Mediation breaks until after the June 3rd hearing. God, this is such a fucking joke. Who schedules mediation for just 2 whole days when the sides are so far apart? That makes it what? 5 days of mediation since the lockout started? And with how stupid and standoffish the PA is being, shit won't get done next month either. Gonna take at least a month for Smith's pussy to stop hurting about losing the appeal. And that's if they don't appeal it to the whole 8th circuit appellate court, and again to the Supreme Court.

"Oh, we're doing what we can to assure football next year!" Then shut the fuck up, sit down and negotiate

Seriously want to cry now..

I'm glad they got offered, but I wouldn't want it this year anyway. Maybe next year when everything gets settled

I feel like they would be really boring on Hard Knocks anyway, unless it was just Brian Dawkins screaming at people for an hour

Yeah, I think the Broncos roster is kinda too "nice" to be as interesting as a Bengals or Jets season. The team has no divas or anything, and aside from Dawkins doesn't have anyone that's particularly "mouthy". Elway and Fox are pretty quiet too. Maybe in a year or so after everyone has settled in and adjusted to the new regime they'll open up. But for now I think the cameras would be too much of a distraction for a team that's young and has a lot to learn in a really short time. Better off with an already established team

Just offer it to the Raiders, it's a lost season every year for them anyway

and they can capitalize on the zombie craze

boo hoo no football

That and Tebow healing the blind/sick/needy.

If teams keep turning down hard knocks, they are going to get stuck with the Bills...

Maybe at that point they would just cancel the show.

I can see them doing Seattle. Pete Carroll loves that attention and acting like a fucking hippie on national tv.

Tiki Barber is such an idiot.

Hard knocks was the final straw in me ending my childhood grist with the bengals. I hate mke brown, I hate Chad Johnson, and Carson Palmer....well, good riddance. I think NFL has become my 2nd pastime.

Yeah, I used to love him too. He really did a number on his reputation. I generally don't care about celebs personal stuff, but his comments towards the organization were pretty distasteful.

Then, the Giants won the Superbowl in 2007, so the joke is on him I guess.

<font color=goldenrod>I'm pretty much the opposite. I don't really care about his comments about the organization. It was years ago, and the Giants won the Super Bowl without him. I didn't think he deserved to be booed mercilessly every time an old Tiki play was shown on the video boards.

But it's pretty hard for me to respect somebody who ditches their wife when she's 8 months pregnant with twins. Fuck him.

I have a Tiki jersey in awesome condition that I bought in 2006 probably only a week or two before he announced his intent to retire. Wish there was an actual nameplate on the back so I could have salvaged it by turning it into a Phillips jersey.</font>

If ESPN's NFL show is correct on their prediction, the earliest the lockout will end is around late July which is what the owners wanted the whole time because at that point, the players would have lost too much time to prepare for the season.

The players still need at least a whole month to train before thinking about pre-season games and then time for free agents to sign and then train with potential new teams.

The owners are also less likely to cave than the players should they lose the current appeals case since their strategy the whole time was to only outlast the players union in waiting.

Lets hope July is the case. I wana get into fantasy football already

Or late June...

Had a dream the season started

David Tyree taking his same-sex marriage views to all new levels

Add in a draft pick and Belichick will do the trade :shifty:

ESPN leaked out some of the details the current CBA proposal contains with the players loosing some percentage of total revenue (down from 53 or 60%) but the owners also lost the ability to lock $1-$2 billion away from the players ($1 billion automatically to go along with $1 billion for expenses).

Buffalo and a few smaller clubs but rich owners could kill the deal though since they don't want to have to spend to match salary cap requirements. The players could still force the NFL to open up its books to prove if they really are loosing money like the owners are claiming.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=6687485

Won't matter about the Bills and a "few" other teams. The vote only needs 24 to pass, so they can vote against all they want. My suggestion is if you don't make enough then gtfo of Buffalo

<font color=goldenrod>Thursday Night Football every week? Fuck. I thought having your team play on Mondays was bad, Thursdays is even worse.</font>

Depends on who you are playing before and after.

As long as they make the Giants play on monday and then thursday in Dallas im good

Well seeing as a huge amount of people dont get NFL network, I think fuck you to the NFL on the Thursday night games.

Luckily the Bills suck so they will never have a Thursday game.

PS Buffalo hasnt been officially linked to be a team against this deal, it is just assumed.

Once Cheap Ralph dies this shit will be good. Cant say I know the team will stay, but they make as much, if not more than Green Bay because of the Toronto games, so they are viable. They just need an owner who is ok with not getting rich from the team. SOmeone who wants to win, not make money.

Won't be on NFLN, will be sold to highest bidder

Last I heard there are a couple of people who want to buy the team but the best potential bid or two would involve moving the team to Toronto and neither the current owner nor the NFL wants that to occur.

Buffalo would need to be ridiculed at the level of the Lions for the owner to decide to start spending money or similar to a New England's case have a bunch of local teams in every sport start winning which forced the Bruins owner to spend after being a notorious cheap-ass.