The Official Lockout is over thread/ Done Deal!

[Happy Panther]

There's a big add difference. You think kids grow up dreaming to work at McDonald's? The players are extremely privileged. I don't give a poo about the injuries. Most of these guys already received a free college degree. You really think they have something to complain about. Now you have the game to where its almost two hand touch and now they wanna complain about that. They just need to end this bickering.

So silly on many levels.

[Happy Panther]

"Look guys I have no reason to lie!" Holliday wrote on his Twitter account. "The truth of the matter is we got tricked, duped, led astray, hoodwinked, bamboozled!"

Other player comments below

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Vonnie-Holliday-We-got-tricked-duped-led-astray-hoodwinked-bamboozled.html

[ncmonzta]

So silly on many levels.

Everyone has their own opinion. You think its new age slavery. I thinks grown men playing a game and getting crazy paid. Doesn't really make a difference. I'm just pissed at everyone now. The lawyers did all this so called detailing language. I assumed the owners and players would be looking at the same pieces of paper that have been negotiating on the whole.summer and now they want to play chess over our money.

[Montsta]

Players are real quick to spout off their two cents on every issue using social media and other modern means, yet when the owners want them to use those available modern technologies to re-certify, they say 'no, we want to mail out the union cards via USPS to be signed and returned.' um WTF?

[panthers55]

I realy would like to see someone outside of the two sides look at what the owner's adopted and see if that is what the two sides agreed to. I really don't beleive the owners or the players at this point. They both are playing the fans not each other. In the end they both will get paid but the fans seem to be the ones losing in all this.

[Happy Panther]

You think its new age slavery.

No I don't.

I thinks grown men playing a game and getting crazy paid.

Elite professionals should get paid. You think the top 1% of 1% of 1% of investment bankers, salespeople, doctors, teachers etc...don't get paid? Many of them more than comparable NFL players.

You just can't compare an NFL player to your average worker bee.

[DaCityKats]

Were is mediator?

[ncmonzta]

No I don't.

Elite professionals should get paid. You think the top 1% of 1% of 1% of investment bankers, salespeople, doctors, teachers etc...don't get paid? Many of them more than comparable NFL players.

You just can't compare an NFL player to your average worker bee.

Why can't I compare them when if they're cut and not picked up by another team they have to go and look for a job just like.the rest of us. I had an assistant principal who use to play for the dolphins and now he's a "working bee" . I have a friend who was on the jets got cut after one season and now makes less than me. It's these guys that sign these big contracts that are doing most of the complaining.

[YoungPanthers89]

Were is mediator?

nice

[carolinarolls]

I feel sad for these players who feel they have been duped. I roflmao at the ones who actually by into the Desmiff militia and feel like they have been duped by the owners and not their own management.

P.S. Herm Edwards makes me laugh

[blackcatgrowl]

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/6791952/nfl-owners-put-all-blitz-players

Don't like reading "power play" and "being played."

The owners have put the players in a hole. And these public perception battles just make everyone look bad.

Bullsh!t.

The owners ratified a proposal which had been in negotiation for over a month.

(Edit: Might I add... a FEDERALLY APPOINTED MEDIATED NEGOTIATION AT THAT)

This is the second deal the owners have tried to make, BOTH times the players have simply turned their back on it. BOTH deals have been very compromising from the details I've read, and BOTH sides are not getting exactly what they want in them (which is about all you can expect from a labor compromise).

This little media spin tactic by Dickwad Smith just shows his true colors. He is willfully trying to sabotage the NFL, and destroy an american institution.

At this point, I say give him what he wants. Close shop on the NFL. Shut the whole fuger down. Then restart it in another name with new employment policies with regard to employees in an AT-WILL state, where a labor union can't survive.

Maybe then these dumbass players will realize the loss of the former greatness of the thing they are actively helping destroy.

[blackcatgrowl]

I think the players are in a pretty bad spot. If they drag this out to the point that games are missed I don't think its ridiculous to expect to hear more boos than cheers the first time they take the field.

And I love it when I actually agree with BCG. Just proves to myself that I'm not just trolling him when we disagree.

:D

Take solace Inimicus, even when you're opposed to what I'm saying, you seem to draw out a chuckle from me.

[Claws]

Get a room.

[blackcatgrowl]

you gonna join us?

You know he wants to.