After 132-days of being locked out football owners, players, and fans were happy when the press conference was held today to announce that the owners and players had reached a deal. Owners unanimously voting to approve the deal on Thursday 7/21/11 and fans were hoping that the players wouldn't be too far from behind him. It was a little disappointing on Thursday once it was announced that the players had not voted on the current deal and would wait until they met today. Representatives/lawyers worked all weekend for the NFLPA looking over the collective bargaining agreement to make sure that everything panned out and the players wouldn't be compromising anything they wanted.
After working all weekend, NFLPA executive committee and 32 player representatives unanimously approved the 10 year Collective Bargaining Agreement today. Now that the lockout is over, today teams were able to go to a 90-man roster and the free agent list was distributed to teams. Tomorrow players are able to return to their teams' facilities and teams can also begin speaking with unrestricted free agents.
The lockout ended and the players are headed right back to work. 10 teams will report Wednesday, 10 teams will report Thursday, 10 teams will report on Friday, and the last 2 remaining teams, the Jets and Texans, will report on Sunday. Teams will have about 2 weeks of training camp before preseason begins, although the Hall of Fame game between the Bears and Rams has been cancelled due to the ongoing battle during the lockout.
Upon the announcement that the lockout was over, fans took to twitter to express their excitement that football was back. Now all I can say now is Are you Ready for Some Football?
LET THE SEASON BEGIN...
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