from a Michael Wilbon column:

"The players' logic, understandably, is that they may take their lumps this year but they'll hit the gusher the next year in an open market. And in the nearly 20 years since the last owners beatdown, new owners who think very differently from the old guard have come along -- men like the Redskins' Daniel Snyder and the Cowboys' Jerry Jones, who without a salary cap would be happy to spend $150 million to win a Super Bowl.

How many owners are there like Snyder and Jones? At least eight -- enough to break ranks and form a splinter group. In fact, this dispute is much larger than players vs. owners. Owners vs. owners is perhaps as big an issue because the new breed of owners, real moneymakers like Snyder and Jones, don't want to share the locally produced revenues, streams of money that didn't exist years ago when the two sides agreed on how the loot would be divvied up. Presumably siding with Jones and Snyder are the owners of the Texans, Patriots, Browns, Bears, Eagles and Broncos. Those are the owners who want to hold on to as much locally-produced revenue as possible (the Giants and Jets have a decrepit stadium that hinders their earning power)."


Another interesting read from espn.com.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=2356568

3/6/2006 6:33:27 PM

Owners have signed a new labor deal through 2012.

30-2. Buffalo and Cincinnati were the dissenters.

3/8/2006 8:49:43 PM

IS IT FINALLY OVER

3/8/2006 10:11:32 PM

[/quote]there will probably be some sort of labor deal. Not reaching an agreement won't be good for anyone, and labor talks usually go to the wire in any industry.

I knew it.

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3/9/2006 11:42:27 AM

steelers and ravens played a big part in the deal bein struck. they came up with the idea to increase shared revenue to 25% to help out the lower revenue teams more.

gg dan rooney

3/9/2006 12:15:28 PM

On a related note, Buffalo's owner Ralph Wilson is a complete moron.

3/9/2006 1:22:25 PM

The Buf. and Cinci owners were the only ones to vote against the labor ext.

also, Jerry Richardson worked very hard to get a deal done, staying to continue talks even when most owners gave up last week.

3/9/2006 1:27:58 PM