Mort on SC: Talks Regress, Owners Going "Retro" on Money Issue

[KillerKat]

f**k the owners.

[4Corners]

If this poo isnt done by next week.The season is screwed and so is the rookies....

they sure is

[Proudiddy]

becoming less interested in football every day. I can't be the only one feeling this way, they have to be losing some fans.

hockey and baseball have overtaken football as my favorite sports. I rarely even post in this section anymore.

I was actually going to make a thread posing the question as to whether this may be the worst time to be a sports fan EVER?

My reasoning is obvious, the two biggest professional sports - football and basketball, are both locked out over labor disputes. So, whereas we're usually able to come here and talk about free agents, how the team looked in OTAs and camps, and the prospects for the upcoming season, instead we're now talking about whether some dickheads can agree to give up a few hundred million from their billions...

It's just horrible.

And quite honestly, I am starting to lose interest. Baseball is too slow, so it won't take away from my passion for football or basketball, but as of right now, I'm extremely disinterested in both the NBA and NFL. I've sort of taken a "whatever" approach to it all right now. I don't really care what they do anymore, just wake me up when transactions are possible and camps start I guess.

[jtnc]

The Owners are gonna definitely lose money cause I'm pretty sure 2 of the pre-games will be cancelled. And they make more on pre-games than they do on regular season games.

[Mr. Scot]

I'm in 'wake me when it's over' mode.

[frash.exe]

[Udogg]

Demarice Smith is such a douche bag. I can't believe he is pulling this crap aga.....errr oh wait wrong thread.

[jtnc]

Yep, this time it's the Owners playing around.

[frash.exe]

this offseason is like taking a really really hard poo

[jtm]

NFL needs to keep in mind that fantasy football is the reason their popularity has soared in the past 5 years - not because they are marketing geniuses (unless they invented fantasy football then they are marketing geniuses). If we didn't have fantasy football, a lot more people would be over this and just watch college football. Unfortunately, fantasy football is so much better for the NFL over other sports b/c of the number of teams.

[Carolina Husker]

Is there any doubt Richardson is driving the bus on this one?

[CatMan72]

Time for the 8th circuit court to issue a ruling... the only way these guys are going to get a deal done is if you put a gun to one of the parties heads.

[DC Amp]

I hope they all go broke

I don't know about going broke but they are definitely working on losing a nice chunk of the pie chart revenues!

[rayzor]

it got better. they stayed late last night. wouldn't have happened if they weren't getting anywhere. if things were stalled they would have just left.

MarkMaske Things appear back on course after Thursday afternoon's near breakdown of talks. A deal by the end of next week again seems possible.

MarkMaske about 1h ago via web

MarkMaske Negotiations are scheduled to continue this morning. More talks are expected next week.

MarkMaske about 1h ago via web

RavensInsider Lengthy negotiating session breaks up for night, CBA talks to resume in the morning: http://bit.ly/kCgior

Aaron Wilson about 6h ago via web

AlbertBreer Parties will return here to negotiations at 8 am tomorrow morning. Seven hours from now. Talks officially over for the night.

Albert Breer about 7h ago via Echofon