News about NFL Lockout
Right now, there’s a ”calm before the following storm” of barbs certain to come following a Minnesota court holds a hearing for the anti-trust fit the (former) NFLPA has filed in opposition to the NFL, set for April six.
Whilst the NFL continues to (in my view, wrongly) paint themselves as the aggrieved party in this fight, the gamers haven’t done much of something.
The NFL may have quietly landed an additional solid physique blow in the public relations battle this week when reports surfaced that the owners will want Human Growth Hormone testing as part of the new Collective Bargaining Arrangement. Formerly, HGH was a banned substance within the NFL, but there have been no tests in location to detect it.
Having made their desire to implement testing public, the owners have added an additional bargaining chip to their stack. I am sure the owners are sincere in saying they want testing in location to be able to protect the integrity with the game, but much more essential to them will be the reality that they may now be able to pull it off the table in order to obtain the players to budge on a different issue.
In the event the players resist the want to insert HGH testing publicly, it casts doubt within the eyes of many fans that the players are, for your most component, clean. Of course, we know that’s not entirely correct, but I must as soon as once more bring up the whole ”perception is reality” issue. Most people are likely to create a snap judgement that because gamers don’t want HGH testing, it means they wish to possess the option to make use of it. It is similar towards the often inaccurate assumption that if you refuse a lie-detector test, you have something to conceal. It is a shallow generalization.
April six will only bring yet another date to wait for, and then an additional. Meanwhile, as gamers around the whole do nothing, the NFL P.R. machine is cranked up and rolling. Public viewpoint began overwhelmingly in favor of the players, but they’ve carried out nothing to take care of it. The owners have acquired a little bit of ground with their P.R. assault, but obviously by now, most are angry with both sides and just want it to become over. Count me in with that group, even if I do tend to aspect more with the players on most problems.