Gene Upshaw Threatening An NFL Strike

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It looks like NFL commissioner Roger Goodell may get to experience a very tough situation come November, when owners are expected to terminate the Collective Bargaining Agreement, followed quite possibly with a strike by the Players Union.

Owners are not happy with the fact they give 60% of NFL revenue to the players, and Gene Upshaw says they will not budge from this, and that the owners will have to live with 40%. The owners accepted the agreement as they had no choice and wanted to avoid a strike, but since accepting it, they have grown increasingly unhappy with it. The two owners who have been the most vocally against the agreement, and appear to be pushing for it to me changed are Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Broncos owner Patrick Bowlen

The termination of this agreement puts an end to the current NFL salary cap in 2009, creating a cap free environment in 2010.

If and when this happens, there will be plenty more issues that will be fought out including drug testing, in which Upshaw refused to allow the NFL to test for HGH via blood testing, and until there is a urine test, he says he won't discuss the issue.

Personally, I don't know which side of this I support. I do know that one thing Upshaw will have on his side in terms of keeping the 60% will be the the push by former players to get more money to retired players, as this issue has become a hot topic for almost a year now, being heavily pushed by former players such as Mike Ditka.