NFL Labor Talks Go South, Players Plan To Decertify To Avoid Lockout

March 11, 2011   ·   Michael Cohen   ·   Jump to comments

The NFL and the NFLPA failed to come to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement, according to NFL.com, that could leave America without it's most popular sport for the first time since 1987.
What does it mean? It means that the players have to decertify and sue the league if there is a lockout, otherwise the prospects of a seeing a fall and winter without NFL football is very, very likely. 
Decertification is a hard thing to understand and comprehend. With it, the players can now sue the NFL on an individual basis according to antitrust law. The players union feels that they will be more successful in their lawsuit if they sue on an individual basis than as a union, because judges feel that labor problems should be ironed out without any court intervention.
The owners have refused to open up their accounts to players, and are not budging on negotiating a monster $9 billion pizza pie, as both sides grapple over active player salaries.The players feel the owner...

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