20 questions about the uncapped year

[Kevin Greene]

Posted by Mike Florio on March 3, 2010 10:52 PM ET

As the NFL launches its first uncapped year since 1993, we've cobbled together 20 questions regarding life in the NFL without a salary cap.

The questions and the answers appear below. With as little legalese and jargon as possible.

But maybe a little profanity. And perhaps even a "shirthead" or two.

Q. Why is the salary cap going away?

Since the early 1990s, the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NFL and the players' union consistently has included a final year in which the salary cap disappears. The goal of the provision was to encourage the parties to get a new deal done more than a year before the current arrangement expires.

Previously, the strategy has worked. At no other time has the NFL even come within a year of an uncapped season. In 2006, the league and the union negotiated a new deal on the eve of the last season with a salary cap.

So this development and most if not all of its peculiar consequences have been contemplated for nearly two decades. Before now, however, no one wanted the cap to go away.

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