watermock
03-09-2006, 08:08 AM
Wow....Tags, Greasy Al and Bowlen working together to get the CBA done. :spit:
http://www.profootballtalk.com/TagsandGene.jpg
I don't give Greasy Al props...EVER, but evidently he and Bowlen were instrumental in getting a new agreement.
This is from PFT so take it like you want, but I have heard this other places.
Well, if we were crazy to mention the possibility of the NFL fracturing after the former CBA expired following the 2007 season, then Raiders owner Al Davis is crazy, too.
Okay, so some of your might think that Al isn't the best person for us to look to in order to confirm our own sanity. But the guy is still sharp, and he has a wealth of experience in ownership that few other NFL owners possess.
And Davis realized that if the owners couldn't get together now on a new deal with the union and, more importantly, a new plan for sharing unshared revenue, they might not ever be able to do so.
Davis said on Wednesday night that he envisioned the possibility of some teams eventually leaving the NFL and starting their own league that would compete with it.
"With the need for product in this country, and the numbers that are being paid, it would have been very simple to have a 10-team league," Davis said, according to The New York Times.
"There would have been anarchy(Bowlen and Greasy Al working together is anarchy allready). I came [to the owners' meeting] because I wanted labor peace. They don't particularly love me, because I'm going to go my own way and do what I think is right. I've fought them. But I also love the league and what's best for football, for the players and the owners.
"This needed to get done."
http://www.profootballtalk.com/TagsandGene.jpg
I don't give Greasy Al props...EVER, but evidently he and Bowlen were instrumental in getting a new agreement.
This is from PFT so take it like you want, but I have heard this other places.
Well, if we were crazy to mention the possibility of the NFL fracturing after the former CBA expired following the 2007 season, then Raiders owner Al Davis is crazy, too.
Okay, so some of your might think that Al isn't the best person for us to look to in order to confirm our own sanity. But the guy is still sharp, and he has a wealth of experience in ownership that few other NFL owners possess.
And Davis realized that if the owners couldn't get together now on a new deal with the union and, more importantly, a new plan for sharing unshared revenue, they might not ever be able to do so.
Davis said on Wednesday night that he envisioned the possibility of some teams eventually leaving the NFL and starting their own league that would compete with it.
"With the need for product in this country, and the numbers that are being paid, it would have been very simple to have a 10-team league," Davis said, according to The New York Times.
"There would have been anarchy(Bowlen and Greasy Al working together is anarchy allready). I came [to the owners' meeting] because I wanted labor peace. They don't particularly love me, because I'm going to go my own way and do what I think is right. I've fought them. But I also love the league and what's best for football, for the players and the owners.
"This needed to get done."