NFL Lockout: Required Reading

Mike Silver of Yahoo! Sports has been tapped into the labor negotiations for some time now and his stuff has been absolutely illuminating throughout this process. That is why you have to read his latest article breaking down the events that went down yesterday.

If you want to understand how things happened then this is required reading. It is Silver’s most illuminating article yet.

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Still, after receiving the offer at 1 p.m. Eastern time, the NFLPA prepared a counter proposal as the deadline approached. In receiving permission to decertify during votes with individual teams over the past eight months, the union had stated it would do so no later than eight hours before the CBA’s expiration – meaning it had to initiate the action by 4 p.m. The league, Atallah said, was aware of this, but commissioner Roger Goodell and his fellow negotiators showed up 20 minutes late to a scheduled 3:30 meeting.

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