Ok…who else is excited?
National Football Player Association's request for an injunction was granted earlier today and teams are forced to continue operations, but the league will appeal the ruling.
U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson in St. Paul, Minn., ordered an end to the 7-week-old lockout, saying she believed the players' argument that the situation was causing irreparable harm to their careers.
The NFL will most definitely attempt to get a stay of the ruling — keeping the lockout in place — from Nelson. They have already filed a notice with the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, questioning whether the district court exceeded its jurisdiction. To some it seems like a reach, to others…the move is justified.
The ruling will not affect this week's draft, which was put in place as the last piece of the now-expired CBA. But because there is no longer a players union — the NFL Players Assn. decertified as a union last month — the league is in peril of running afoul of antitrust laws with each decision the owners make collectively.
If the league does not get its stay and the lockout is lifted, the NFL probably would put in place the rules under which it operated last season — seeing as those rules were collectively bargained for with the players, when those players were represented by a union.
Only time will tell…or sell…tickets. Go Eagles!!!
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