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This is from 02/23:
Champ Is Not optimistic about 2011 season
By Mike Klis, Denver Post
A new four-year, $43 million contract with $22 million in guarantees is nice. Now for the hard part: Getting that first payday.
Champ Bailey, the Broncos’ newly signed cornerback, said he was not optimistic a new collective bargaining agreement between NFL owners and players union would be reached before the start of the 2011 season on Sept. 8 (When the Green Bay Packers are expected to host TBA).
“”No I’m not,” Bailey said by conference call. ”I’ve been pessimistic about this thing since Day 1. Ever since our union leader (DeMaurice Smith) came and talked to us last year it kind of opened my eyes like, there might not be football. I know once April, May, June, July rolls around, and there’s no football, I don’t know what the players are going to do."
“There’s a lot of players out there that need this game. That’s a big bargaining chip for the NFL and they’re going to use that against us. I can see that happening.”
Just another nail in the coffin.
Champ Is Not optimistic about 2011 season
By Mike Klis, Denver Post
A new four-year, $43 million contract with $22 million in guarantees is nice. Now for the hard part: Getting that first payday.
Champ Bailey, the Broncos’ newly signed cornerback, said he was not optimistic a new collective bargaining agreement between NFL owners and players union would be reached before the start of the 2011 season on Sept. 8 (When the Green Bay Packers are expected to host TBA).
“”No I’m not,” Bailey said by conference call. ”I’ve been pessimistic about this thing since Day 1. Ever since our union leader (DeMaurice Smith) came and talked to us last year it kind of opened my eyes like, there might not be football. I know once April, May, June, July rolls around, and there’s no football, I don’t know what the players are going to do."
“There’s a lot of players out there that need this game. That’s a big bargaining chip for the NFL and they’re going to use that against us. I can see that happening.”
Just another nail in the coffin.
