NFL Approaching Lockout Mode
We have a football betting update from Bodog on the looming NFL lockout. They may well be our favorite online sportsbook with great prices and tight spreads. Whilst they love to write these sports betting previews we don’t always pay attention but as always any insight is helpful:
The moment every NFL bettor has dreaded is here, it’s almost lockout time.
NFL labor talks broke down just hours before the latest contract extension expired Friday. And, as threatened, the NFLPA decertified and its players plan to file an antitrust suit. The player think the owners have been holding back financial info, and want the courts to dig deeper.
“We met with the owners until about 4 o’clock today,” NFL union head DeMaurice Smith said. “We discussed a proposal they had presented. At this time, significant differences continue to remain. We informed the owners that … if there was going to be a request for an extension, that we asked for 10 years of audited financial information to accompany that extension.”
As anyone who watched the O.J. Simpson trial knows, court takes forever and could go deep into the NFL offseason before a decision is reached if the NFLPA pushed the suit forward.
It appears both sides were about $185 million per year apart on how much money owners would get up front during the new collective bargaining agreement. Now that sounds like a bad thing, but it’s much less than the $1 billion that separated them for a long time. The union refused to budge any further without getting detailed financial information for each team.
What does that mean for bettors? Of course that could mean you might have to bet on darts and golf odds come September. However, don’t count the 2011 season out yet, the NFL players and owners love money, and they don’t want to threaten the NFL’s future when things have been going so well.
Bet on NFL futures in the Bodog Sportsbook right now!
Bodog are one of the best online sportsbooks for all major sports including football betting. They have great prices and spreads and offer an almost unparalleled online sportsbook service. For football betting and all major sports betting they really are hard to beat.
