NFL Tells Teams, Players OK to Work Again

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By DAVE CAMPBELL

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Finally, the NFL is getting back to football.

Five days after a federal judge declared the lockout was illegal and nearly seven weeks after it began, the NFL said players can talk with coaches, work out at team headquarters and look at their playbooks.

The NFL said all of that can begin Friday, when it is also expected to release detailed guidelines for free agency, trades and other roster moves in the absence of a collective bargaining agreement.

"That's great news," said linebacker Joe Mays, one of 10 Denver Broncos players who showed up at the team's headquarters Thursday. "It's something we've been trying to do, get back to work."


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[Crowman1979]

1. I wish they would force these companies who sent our jobs overseas to get us to work again.

With union protection that is. Because right now, there are more pressing matters in the world than professional sports.

[Initech]

2. Each football team does employ between 1000 - 2000 people.

That includes front office staff, management, parking, security, concessions, you name it. there'd be tons of regular folks out of work because of the greedy owners' lockout.

[customerserviceguy]

3. Nor to mention the tens of thousands in each city

who staff the restaurants, hotels, transportation systems, and the people who support them every time there's an NFL game in any of the places that host them.

Glad to see this didn't drag out and cause uncertainty for those folks.

[alp227]

4. the lockout will NOT happen, meanwhile the draft continues till tomorrow n/t