NFL Season To Start On Time? 'Right Now, It Doesn't Look Good'
CHICAGO (WSCR) NFL fans have had to put up with an awful lot this offseason. The players and owners have been battling in court and at the negotiating table, all the while, the fate of the 2011 season has been in doubt.
For the most part, fans don't care about revenue sharing and the other issues that are holding up the negotiations. All the fans want to know is if the league will start its season on time.
"I think it's too early to call, but right now, it doesn't look good because there's just no indication of any real desire to talk," Mike Florio, of ProFootballTalk.com, said on the Danny Mac Show. "And I fear, and this isn't a judgment call, I'm trying not to take sides here, but I just fear that the players, i.e. the NFLPA, will not want to negotiate if they lose in the 8th circuit [court], that's my concern."
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"Now hey, if they win the 8th circuit we're going to have football in 2011 and all this stuff gets pushed into a court room in Minnesota. It could fundamentally change the game as we know it, down the road, but at least we'd have football in 2011. So right now, too early to tell, but there's a lot of people out there who are becoming concerned that as the days trickle by, and we're now 99 days away from the season opener, Saints at Packers, we're going to miss some games and it may not be until November. Cris Collinsworth, of NBC, thinks November is when the season will start, with something like nine, 10 games. Nine games is what we saw in 1982."
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals will make its ruling on Friday whether uphold Judge Susan Richard Nelson's ruling to lift the lockout and return the league to normal operations.
