Super Bowl Blues: Why the Expiring CBA Should Have NFL Fans Crying Foul

February 1, 2011   ·   Peter Kleiss   ·   Jump to comments

The NFL wants you to be thinking about the upcoming Super Bowl.
But the bigger story is about the looming expiration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). You may not have heard much about this yet, but come March 3, I guarantee you will.
It is highly likely there will indeed be a lockout preventing the start of next season. The NFL Players Association (NFLPA) and the NFL owners may be further apart in their current negotiations than at any other time in their history.
Representatives from both the NFLPA and the NFL have made statements indicating they believe the players got too much in the last CBA. While this is not surprising coming from the NFL, it does come as a shock when the players' union admits it.
In an interview with Sirius XM Radio, Kevin Mawae, the NFLPA president and retired eight-time Pro Bowl center said, "I think what really happened is in 2006, we got such a great deal. I mean the players got a good deal and the owners felt ...

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