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| 26th May, 2005 - 3:44 pm | The Baltimore Sun - The NFL has stalled recently in their attempt to reach a new labor agreement, the main issue being the growing disparity in shared revenues amongst big market and smaller market teams.
To resolve this issue the NFL owners plan to meet once a month from now until October in the hopes of coming to some type of compromise.
"Hopefully by then, we'll be signing an agreement and not looking like pumpkins," commissioner Paul Tagliabue said when the two-day spring meeting concluded at The Ritz-Carlton hotel.
Behind closed doors, the owners tried to hash out internal differences over a revenue stream that favors certain big-market teams -- like the Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles -- and frowns on smaller markets -- like the Indianapolis Colts, Buffalo Bills and Minnesota Vikings. [READ] |
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