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from NY Times.com:
Slow Pace of Contract Talks Has Owners Pondering Lockout for 2008 Season
By JUDY BATTISTA
Published: November 18, 2005
The National Football League has made so little movement toward a new collective bargaining agreement that during a two-day meeting this week in Kansas City, Mo., the owners discussed the possibility of playing the 2007 season without a salary cap and having a lockout in 2008. They also talked about creating a contingency fund in the event of a lockout.
The current contract expires at the end of 2007, but if an agreement is not completed by the start of the free-agent signing period on March 3, contract negotiations will be complicated. Bonuses would have to be prorated for salary-cap purposes over the remaining two years of the agreement, rather than over the life of the contract.
Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said Tuesday that players and owners remained far apart. But Harold Henderson, the head of the management council and the top negotiator, said that he was confident there would be an agreement. "I was optimistic it would be done by now," Henderson said.
The owners also did not make much progress in resolving their internal argument over revenue sharing. Several so-called high-revenue teams are balking at sharing revenue from luxury suites and local broadcast deals with low-revenue teams. In an interview two weeks ago, Dallas's Jerry Jones, one of the owners seeking to keep a greater portion of his team's revenue, said that sharing creates a disincentive to seek new moneymaking opportunities.
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Bulger 4301 yards 24 tds 8 ints
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Jackson 2334 total yards 16 Total Tds
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