读者可能还记得关于退役的NFL球员和NFL球员协会之间的关系在yabo2018客服体育经济学的帖子。一个这样的帖子是在NFL赔偿事宜从7月25日，2006年一个新的皱纹已经出现。退役球员状告NFLPA未能有效地向市场推出他们。周一，在旧金山一个陪审团发现原告并颁发2056名退役球员在赔偿$ 700万和惩罚性赔偿另一$ 21亿美元。在故事的更多细节在这里。

该NFLPA发誓要上诉的决定，它被称为“正义的完全流产”。

这一切对我来说最有趣的部分是，NFLPA似乎吵架都很辛苦，以免帮助了其退休会费付费会员，而在同一时间被认为是最弱的职业体育工会在对抗业主的条款。科比冈贝尔的言论关于皮带的位置是在点一个案件。我不知道有多少的NFLPA和MLBPA之间的差异，从执行董事的背景干。这是现在特别重要，因为NFLPA正在寻找一个新的董事，并在足球背景并不是必需的。尽管如此，主要候选人似乎是退役球员，而不是工会组织者/谈判代表，马文·米勒谁做的MLBPA如此强大，好战过。

修订后：11/14

我刚刚跑过这个更深入地了解陪审团决定：

至于罚款去，没什么NFL专员办事处实行了能与执政旧金山陪审团比较最近耳光NFL球员协会为失误退役NFL球员的图像的许可。(Which is a nice way of saying that late NFLPA Executive Director Gene Upshaw asked EA Sports to “scramble” retired players’ images in its ultra-lucrative Madden Football game) The jury ordered the union to pay retired players $7.1 million in compensatory damages and $21 million in punitive damages.

“The day after [former Packers cornerback Herb] Adderley filed the class-action suit in February 2007, Upshaw said that retired players, in general, were not marketable and did not deserve any licensing money,” the New York Times’ Alan Schwarz reports. “‘We could have the greatest dog food in the world,’ he said, ‘but if the dogs don’t like it, we can’t sell it. Put that at the top of the story.’ The lead lawyer for the players, Ronald S. Katz, referred to Upshaw’s dog food remark five times in his closing argument, and later said he believed the remark played a significant role in the jury’s award.”

作为NFLPA准备表决的继任已故Upshaw先生，施瓦茨的同胞Timesman威廉·C·罗登看到了NFLPA到过程中发生变化的机会。“下一个执行董事的主要挑战是弥合过去和现在的玩家之间的鸿沟，” Rhoden写道。“这种怪异的和人为的划分更加明显大约三年前后Upshaw宣布，他回答到，并负责仅现役球员。[But] there is no ‘us,’ there is no ‘them’ — just a universe of football players, old and young, who have given broken bones and blood to the growth of a multibillion-dollar industry that undervalues all of them.”

好像NLFPA需要做一些额外置乱...清理其成员之间的这个烂摊子。