K-Gun10 Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 Vindication for Bengals, Bills Posted: Monday March 31, 2008 06:30AM ET Two years after Bengals owner Mike Brown and Bills owner Ralph Wilson were ridiculed for being behind the times and casting the only two votes against the league's labor deal with the players' union, these members of the NFL's old guard now appear to have been ahead of the curve. Though a league-imposed ban remains on team owners not to discuss the labor situation in public, sentiment has swung among fellow owners toward Brown and Wilson's position. The six-year extension from 2006 is not good for the league. And for Brown and Wilson, it's a matter of vindication. Owners have until Nov. 8 to opt out of the six-year extension to their collective bargaining agreement with the players. They need only nine of 32 votes to get out of it. The prevailing wisdom is they will. Then the union will strike or use decertification tactics. The 2009 season would be the last with a salary cap. Cincinnati Enquirer
Bflojohn Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 If and when the leagues players decertify or strike, it opens Pandoras' box, in my opinion! Greedy owners like Jones, Kraft, and Snyder will literally create a "haves and have nots" system, and the competitive balance is going to be forever destroyed by these men! The prospects of a Super Bowl win for Western New York will be wrecked, if it ever existed at all....
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