Replacement Players

[SBXVII]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

As I understand it, the contracts are null till a new CBA grandfathers them in, HOWEVER, if the owners chose to bring in scabs, and all the owners refused to allow any current players to play on their teams(because as we all know - the players want to play:vomit, THEN the owners would be guilty of collusion and even more anti trust violations, thus subjecting them to treble (triple) damages, so the 100 million dollar per team number would jump to $300million and probably over $400 million per team. There will be no replacement players this go around.

and.... although you bring up a good point, could not the owners incorporate into their agreement with a new CBA that the players will not seek "collusion" or that whatever penalty in regards to that be dismissed in order to reach an agreement?

In any event the the NFL has said "All games will be played." So no worry, if the first 4 games are not played as expected I'm sure the season will simply be extended at the end to finish these games or the whole season will be backed up so the first games played will be the first opponants on week 4. We'll just have to sweat it out the first few weeks.


But knowing all this why would all the teams already announce "Replacement Tryouts" if each owner knows he's breaking the law and could be forced to pay a huge penalty? Somethings not adding up.