NFL gives financial info but Union wants more

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Originally Posted by googlegoogle

I want the baseball owners to bust the baseball union.

It's ridiculous that players need to see the books.

When your argreement calls for a sharing of a percentage of the monies, and you're arguing profit loss, you can't prove your position without showing the data. And, given that the owners are known for things like:

Noll said his analysis of the N.F.L.'s financial statement showed that Norman Braman, owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, paid himself a salary of $7.5 million for 1990. That salary was recorded as general expenses, when it could have been counted as profit for Braman, Noll told the jury.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...54C0A964958260

and:

"Since my father's death, that was in 1991, I have" been paid an annual bonus, Brown testified in the 2007 trial.

In at least two of those years, that bonus was a "general manager" bonus, court documents note:

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2...s-records-show

Why would you expect the union to just believe whatever the owners tell it?