With the NFL’s current collective bargaining agreement scheduled to expire on March 4, a bargaining session took place today between the NFL and NFL Player’s Association, and based on a whole host of reports, things did not go well.
The session, which was scheduled to last nine hours, was cut well short when, according to ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, NFLPA proposed a 50-50 split of all revenue generated by the league. Now it’s perfectly fine for the owners to not like that proposal, but to cut short the session, and to also cancel negotiation sessions for next week? Well that can’t be viewed as a good thing. While we are still a long, long ways from the regular season, its hard to imagine anything getting done before March 4 if the sides are this far apart now.
The league, through spokesman Greg Aiello, did issue the following statement this afternoon.
“Despite the inaccurate characterizations of yesterday’s meeting, out of respect to the collective bargaining process and our negotiating partner, we are going to continue to conduct negotiations with the union in private and not engage in a point-counterpoint on the specifics of either side’s proposals or the meeting process.
“Instead, we will work as hard as possible to reach a fair agreement by March 4. We are fully focused on that goal.”
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