The Facts:
Less than 72 hours before the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement expires, the league and the players’ union were scheduled to resume negotiations in front of a federal mediator.
Reported by the Associated Press
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
There was no telling whether the sides would fare any better Tuesday than they did over seven consecutive days of talks that wrapped up last week — and left the league’s owners and the NFL Players Association far apart on the major issues. As the AP suggested, when it comes to the NFL, it’s all one big guessing game at the moment. The CBA expires at midnight as Thursday becomes Friday on the East Coast, and the owners could lock out the players immediately. Even before that, though, the union could decertify — essentially, declare itself out of the business of representing players — and let the players take their chances in court. For what it's worth, the league's 32 owners are slated to meet Wednesday and Thursday in Virginia for updates on the status of negotiations. And then they will need to determine their next step. Whatever happens between now and Friday could eventually wind up causing the country’s most popular sport to lose regular-season games to a work stoppage for the first time since 1987. Or everything could be resolved by management and labor in an industry with revenues topping $9 billion annually. ... Stay tuned.
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