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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 362506" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Thanks, I checked the News Forum and didn't see anything. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">No lawyers and owners meeting with union reps and players is a very positive sign IMO. Tomorrow we should hear the ruling on the NFL's appeal. Here's what Brandt had to say about it in a recent <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/122784144.html" target="_blank">jsonline story</a>: </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><em>"If the NFL loses the appeal, then they're paying players, business is open, they're under temporary rules and they need to forge a new deal," said Brandt. "If the players lose the appeal, they're locked out indefinitely and missing paychecks and they'll need to make a deal.</em></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><em>"If the Eighth Circuit upholds the lockout on appeal - which I expect them to do - the NFLPA has to look in the distance and see a future of an indefinite lockout," Brandt said. "I would hope their strategy would turn to deal-making instead of litigating.</em></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><em>"And I would further hope that the NFL would not use that leverage in an unreasonable way.</em></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><em>"There is a deal to be made here; one that will not look much different than what was being discussed on March 11 when negotiation turned to litigation."</em></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Let's hope both sides get their heads out of their @sses and get a deal done. I think the NFL winning the appeal will be good for the process - the owners won't settle unless they get a bigger piece of the pie. But as Brandt says, that'll be true only if the NFL isn't unreasonable. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 362506, member: 4300"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Thanks, I checked the News Forum and didn't see anything. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]No lawyers and owners meeting with union reps and players is a very positive sign IMO. Tomorrow we should hear the ruling on the NFL's appeal. Here's what Brandt had to say about it in a recent [URL="http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/122784144.html"]jsonline story[/URL]: [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][I]"If the NFL loses the appeal, then they're paying players, business is open, they're under temporary rules and they need to forge a new deal," said Brandt. "If the players lose the appeal, they're locked out indefinitely and missing paychecks and they'll need to make a deal.[/I][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][I]"If the Eighth Circuit upholds the lockout on appeal - which I expect them to do - the NFLPA has to look in the distance and see a future of an indefinite lockout," Brandt said. "I would hope their strategy would turn to deal-making instead of litigating.[/I][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][I]"And I would further hope that the NFL would not use that leverage in an unreasonable way.[/I][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][I]"There is a deal to be made here; one that will not look much different than what was being discussed on March 11 when negotiation turned to litigation."[/I][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Let's hope both sides get their heads out of their @sses and get a deal done. I think the NFL winning the appeal will be good for the process - the owners won't settle unless they get a bigger piece of the pie. But as Brandt says, that'll be true only if the NFL isn't unreasonable. [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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