NFL ‘encouraged’ collusion in shocking reveal as league desperately tried to hide docs
NY Post
Shady talks did happen behind closed doors.
In what is being hailed as a monumental reveal, an independent arbitrator wrote there is “little question” the NFL management council, with the blessing of commissioner Roger Goodell, “encouraged” teams to reduce guarantees in NFL contracts during a 2022 owners meeting.
However, the arbitrator of the 2022 lawsuit by the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) alleging collusion by the league and its owners ruled there is not evidence to verify that collusion occurred.
“There is little question that the NFL Management Council, with the blessing of the Commissioner, encouraged the 32 NFL Clubs to reduce guarantees in veteran’s contracts at the March 2022 annual owner’s meeting,” the ruling reads, as revealed by reporter Pablo Torre.
“However, the evidence did not establish a clear preponderance that the Clubs agreed to do that or participated in such a scheme. There are many Clubs whose only connection to his proceeding is the attendance at the Owners’ meeting, and the expert evidence of aggregate and average changes in various measure of spending, guaranteed and otherwise, is not sufficient, even when considered with the other evidence presented, for the NFLPA to meet its standard of proof.”
Torre, the host of the popular “Pablo Torre Finds Out” podcast, and Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio both described the reveal of the NFL imploring its owners to act in a certain way as significant.
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