NFL Reaches Tentative Labor Settlement

JHTJ · Mar 6, 2006

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/06/AR2006030600660.html

NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue is scheduled to present a proposed labor settlement to team owners Tuesday in Dallas, and several sources familiar with the deliberations said today they expect the proposal to be delivered with Tagliabue's endorsement as a result of an agreement reached between him and players' union chief Gene Upshaw.

That was denied by the league. An NFL spokesman said that Tagliabue had not agreed to a tentative deal with Upshaw to put before the owners. Greg Aiello, the NFL's vice president of public relations, said the settlement proposal that Tagliabue will present to the owners will be Upshaw's proposal and the commissioner will not offer a recommendation about whether he thinks it should be ratified.

Earlier, three sources said that Upshaw and Tagliabue had reached a tentative agreement regarding Tagliabue's support of the proposed settlement. A participant in the negotiations, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the deliberations were ongoing, said that representatives of the owners and the union would spend today putting the terms of the deal into writing and the union had been informed that Tagliabue would give the proposal his backing at the owners' meeting.

The details of the proposed agreement were not immediately available, but the participant in the talks said they might be available later today.

The owner of one NFL team said he had been told there was a tentative agreement between Tagliabue and Upshaw on the proposal that's pending the owners' approval, and a top front-office executive from another club said his team had the same understanding.

Any proposed labor settlement would have to be approved by at least 24 of the 32 NFL teams to go into effect.

The person involved in the talks said the proposed settlement is more complex than is being portrayed in reports that say it would give the players 59.5 percent of an expanded pool of league revenues as compensation. The salary cap figure would fluctuate annually based not only on changes in revenues, the person said, but also on how much money the 32 NFL teams collectively spent above or below the flexible salary cap the previous season.

If the teams collectively spent less than the salary cap allotment in a season, the next season's cap would move upward in the players' favor. If the clubs collectively spent more than the salary cap allotment in a season, the cap would move lower the following season to guarantee the players less money.

In the 12 seasons that the NFL has had a salary cap system, such "cash over cap" expenditures have averaged about 4 percent annually. But the expenditures have been far less during the past five seasons, producing problems for the current negotiators in assessing how much extra money teams will spend in future seasons
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Joe Willie White Shoes · Mar 6, 2006

Read the article. There is no tentative settlement. The only thing that is agreed is that the owners will vote on the players' proposal tomorrow. I heard this morning that the main hold up to the deal is Patriot owner Kraft's opposition to revenue sharing. I always despised Kraft. Now he is taking down the NFL's proven system just so he can make more money. He is a selfish egomaniacal dick.

plinko · Mar 6, 2006

That was denied by the league.
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guess labor settlements involve denying agreeing on anything.

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