NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Commissioner of the NFL Roger Goodell defended lockout at certain fans of Tennessee Titans unfortunate and said that the League does not have a "drop dead date" to end the impasse.
"We will work to try to get this fact and try to avoid losing any more than the NFL, that we have already lost", said the Commissioner.
Goodell held its last conference call with season ticket holders Thursday, this time to spend about 36 minutes on the phone with the Titans fans. They asked Goodell on as to if the 2011 will be deleted, an 18-game schedule, the expansion in Los Angeles and the manner in which the ticket prices are set.
Most of the fans heard the Commissioner was not pleased with the situation.
Lee of Joelton wanted to know why the NFL owners open their books to the players, the Lafayette John asked how remote owners and the players really are, and Phillip of Nashville had no issue but warned the frustrated Commissioner fans will take their anger the NFL.
"Everyone to sit down and stay until they work some agreement and get this thing behind them before the NFL loses all credibility, get", said Phillip, who shares the eight notes of season with his son.
William of San Ramon, California, flying to Nashville for three games a season and recalled Goodell of major League Baseball struggles to regain the fans after strike erased from the 1994 world series.
"It's like a great empire Rome, in the NFL." But if it is not supported by the fans, it will not be a great empire, William said.
Goodell has calmly to each question, defending the lockout as a tool to force negotiations. He said that he understands the frustration and anger directed at the NFL fans.
"I think that we all bear the responsibility for it if we are not able to propose solutions," Goodell said.
The Commissioner also defended owners not to open the books, saying that will not solve the problem. Goodell said players were League revenues "down to a penny" and know costs rise faster than revenues. He said NFL economics have changed dramatically over the past 10 to 15 years.
"These are serious questions that need to be addressed, and it is time to do so and not to start the can down the street here," Goodell said.
"The owners were sensitive to implement a proposal just on the table." We now have the players to engage in debate and to come back to try to resolve the problems, which as you are basic economic questions. ?
Goodell also said that the NFL intends to play the full season. But he noted that the League had to cancel its annual symposium of rookie June earlier this week with the start of dangerously close to the training camps.
"We do not have a date drop dead", said Goodell.
When a man asked where he could find an objective breakdown of the differences between owners and players, Goodell he directed toward Web sites of the League and the NFL Players Association Web site.
As the Commissioner has said, negotiations, step of legal proceedings, will resolve this labour dispute.
"There are obviously issues that we disagree on, but certainly there are solutions to these disagreements." "I think it's going to get everyone realizing that we better work together to find solutions that the fighting," Goodell said. "Who is in the best interest of more and more the game and will be in the best interest of all parties for the future."
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