WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 25: DeMaurice Smith (L) executive director of the National Football League Players' Association, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell shake hands before addressing the media on July 25, 2011 in Washington, DC. The NFL players and owners announced they have reached agreement and ended the lockout. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)
Football Is Back: Player Reps Unanimously Approve New CBA
The NFL lockout is coming to a close after 136 days. NFL player reps unanimously voted to approve the new CBA on Monday.
Football Is Back: Player Reps Unanimously Approve New CBA
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NFL Lockout Set To End As Player Reps Unanimously Approve New CBA
After 136 days, the NFL lockout is officially ready to come to a conclusion. Player reps from each of the 32 NFL teams voted on Monday to approve the new collective bargaining agreement, signaling that football is officially back.
The vote on the new CBA was unanimous, as first tweeted by the NFLPA's George Attalah. According to Albert Breer, the vote serves as a recommendation to the plaintiffs in the Brady v. NFL case to approve the settlement. The plaintiffs have already agreed to do just that, so you can basically stick a fork in the NFL lockout.
The next step to officially wrap up the labor situation is for players from around the league to vote on recertifying the NFLPA. This vote is expected to happen over a few days later this week when players start reporting to their team facilities. Once the vote happens and the union is recertified, the new CBA can officially go into effect.
With the new collective bargaining agreement being 10 years long and including no opt-out clauses, fans won't have to worry about another lockout until at least 2021. That means that starting now and for the next decade, fans can worry strictly about football. That is, perhaps, the best news of all.
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NFL Lockout Update: Owners Ratify New CBA
The NFL lockout is not officially over just yet, but it's very close. On Thursday in Atlanta, NFL owners voted 31-0 to ratify the proposed collective bargaining agreement. (The Raiders abstained from voting.) This means all that's left to end the lockout and bring back football is the ratification of the new CBA by players.
While there are reports that the players may have some issues with the agreement the owners ratified, the hope is that all of the talk about the lockout will soon be behind us. Players and fans alike are ready to get free agency and training camp started, and under the owner-ratified agreement, those things would begin in the next week.
Here are some other details (via NFL Network) about the agreement the owners ratified:
- It is for 10 years long and includes no opt-outs by players or owners
- Salary cap in 2011 is $120.4 million
- The salary floor is 99 percent of the cap from 2011-12 and 95 percent of the cap from 2013-20
- There will be at least four preseason games through at least 2013
- Retirees will receive an additional $900 million to $1 billion in benefits
Again, the lockout will not be over until the players approve this agreement. For now it certainly looks like this could all be over soon, but nothing is official unless the players sign off on it.
