Issues which prevented a new NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement from being reached:
* The NFL demanded a multi-billion dollar giveback and refused to provide any legitimate financial information to justify it.
* The NFL’s offer on March 7 to give the NFLPA a single sheet of numbers was NOT financial disclosure. The players’ accountants and bankers advised that the “offered” information was meaningless: only two numbers for each year.
* The NFL wanted to turn the clock back on player compensation by four years, moving them back to where they were in 2007.
* The NFL offered no proposal at all for long-term share of revenues.
* NFL demanded 100% of all revenues which went above unrealistically low projections for the first four years.
* The NFL refused to meet the players on significant changes to in-season, off-season or pre-season health and safety rules.
* The NFL kept on the table its hypocritical demand for an 18-game season, despite its public claims to be working toward improving the heath and safety of players.
* The NFL wanted cutbacks in payer workers’ compensation benefits for injured players.
* The NFL sought to limit rookie compensation long after they become veterans — into players’ fourth and fifth years
* THE PLAYERS WANT TO KEEP PLAYING
o The players offered repeatedly to continue working under the existing CBA, but were rejected by the NFL five times.
o Despite publicly admitting no club was losing money, that TV ratings, sponsorship money, etc. were at an all time high, the NFL continued to insist on an 18-percent rollback in the players’ share of revenues and continue to deny the NFLPA’s request for justification.
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