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For example, if the owners commit to diverting 10 cents per dollar to stadium costs and other expenses that the parties agree to share, the players probably would be willing to take 45 of the remaining 90 cents, since they would still be splitting the rest of the money on a 50-50 basis with the owners.

Deb says: Mar 13, 2011 11:09 PM @Those who keep insisting players offered nothing, pay attention: "[E]arlier this year, the players offered to take 50 cents of every dollar earned, without regard to expense credits or anything else that would be deducted before getting out the carving knife. The proposal represented a lower percentage of total dollars than the players have received in each year since 2002." The owners demanded an additional $1 billion from players. The owners spent two years stockpiling lockout funds to finance them while they shut down the league. The owners hired a lockout specialist to head their "negotiating" team. The owners kept walking away from the negotiating table before making a ninth-hour offer that didn’t address the disputed revenues. The owners have waged a propaganda war to convince naive fans that labor is trying to hit them up for more money when it’s the other way around. The owners shut down the league–as they obviously intended to do from the start. The players are going to court in hopes of resuming business. The percentage of the NFL revenues earmarked for players is comparable to the percentage of budget earmarked for human resources in any labor intensive industry. NFL owners are not suffering and players are paid commensurate with the revenue they generate for the owners.

Posted by Mike Florio on February 10, 2011, 3:37 PM EST The opening segment to today’s PFT Live focused on Wednesday’s collapse of the labor talks. And Wednesday’s collapse of the labor talks looks to be the responsibility of the NFL, not the union. Unless the union offered to take 50 cents on the dollar of every dollar and said that it was a bottom-line position with no room to move, the league should have acknowledged that 50 cents on the dollar of every dollar is a reasonable opening position, and the league should have digested the offer and responded.

Mike Florio in lawyer mode. No wait, it's pretty good, other than him being somewhat annoying. Interview is with NFL's mouthpiece. If there is no agreement, the second option available after a lockout is that the owners can declare an impasse and impose the conditions of their last offer on the players, who could then go on strike if they want. Which puts the blame for no football on the players. Interesting to me is the 3rd comment "I wasn’t the first time, but I am hands down, 100% on the player’s side this time." Currently rated by readers at 11 thumbs up, 37 thumbs down. What's the matter with kansas???