Confirming the NFL’s Idea of Cutting Costs
While The NFLPA is continuing to implement cuts to overhead and expenses, as well as advising its active players to start saving as much money as they can, the NFL is apparently cutting any and all outlays that don’t put money in their pocket.
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NFLPA's Idea of Cost-Cutting
NFL's Idea of Cost-Cutting
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Before there’s any more doubt and in-fighting about the League’s approach to cutting costs ahead of a lockout, everyone needs to chill a minute and read the following news clip from ESPN.
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Sources: Jones fined at least $100K
By Chris Mortensen
ESPN
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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones made a comment about revenue sharing and now he’s sharing his revenue with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
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Jones has been fined at least $100,000 for violating a gag order on labor issues last week, according to league sources.
Jones stated on Sept. 4 that revenue sharing is “on its way out,” while doing a media interview originally intended to support Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf’s quest for a new stadium.
Revenue sharing is considered a critical component of the NFL’s pending collective bargaining talks since the owners exercised an option in May 2008 to terminate the deal after the 2010 season.
Goodell
The union has maintained that the owners’ biggest issue is amongst themselves because of the revenue sharing model and Jones’ comments seemingly emboldened that position.
Goodell had issued a gag order for all owners and team executives from discussing any aspect of the pending labor issues. Jones crossed the line, drawing a “six-figure” fine, sources said, as the commissioner distributed a memo Friday to all 32 owners, along with a reminder that the gag order remains in effect. Goodell did not disclose the specific amount of Jones’ fine in the memo.
Read the rest of the article – click HERE. And you can also read a follow-up piece from ESPN’s senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen by clicking HERE.
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Any more questions?
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Dave Pear
December 7th, 2009 at 12:01 PM #
Dear Commissioner Goodell,
The House Judiciary Committee scolded you in Washington DC on October 28, 2009 for the deceptive whitewash that your PR department continues to come up with in an effort to mislead Congress.
However, Congress is no longer captivated nor do they believe this nonsense. This whitewash only impedes any potential progress by not admitting and correcting these cosmic injustices toward retired players and their beneficiaries.
This current schism between active and current players was created by the owners and you’re being paid $12,000,000 annually to attempt to justify this ruse.
Active players are only one collision away on the football field from becoming retired players and if things don’t change, they’ll also become the enemy of an $8,000,000,000 a year industry (and growing) that despises their retired employees who made the NFL the business it is today.
When will there be pension/disability reform and medical benefits after football for retired players?
As the Commissioner of the NFL, it’s your job to provide an answer to retired players and the public and to uphold the integrity of the League!
Regards,
Dave & Heidi Pear