SI.com · Jun 24, 2016
Five years after the last lockout, labor peace is relative for NFL
SI Now host Maggie Gray discusses what it's like to be a fan of a team that's down on its luck.
Thoughts and picked-up pieces while I count down the hours until a period of NFL radio silence I’ll mostly spend running to baseball fields and coaching girls' softball:
• As we prepare for a new season, it’s hard to believe that the fifth anniversary of the end of the 2011 lockout is coming up on July 25 (the new collective bargaining agreement was officially ratified on Aug. 4). If this is what labor peace looks like, with all sorts of courtroom fights and bitter words from both sides, we could be in for another rocky five years until the agreement expires after the 2020 season.
