The deadline to complete negotiations between the NFL owners and the NFL players union regarding  a new collective bargaining agreement was extended yesterday, giving the two sides 24 extra hours to try to work out a deal.  However, there is speculation that this extension is merely functioning as a timeframe to lay out a longer extension period.  “If we can make the kind of progress that you needed to make to have a further extension, that’s where we’d be looking,” NFL lead negotiator Jeff Pash told the media yesterday.  ”Hopefully, we can make some progress and keep this thing going.  That’s obviously in everybody’s interest.  It’s been our goal all along and we’re going to just keep at it.”

There is a lot of concern that the 2011 NFL season won’t happen, or will at least be shortened by the two sides’ differences.  The four major issues at hand are the allocation of the $9 billion the league makes per season, a rookie wage scale, an 18-game season and retirement benefits.  President Obama weighed in this week, essentially saying that he sees no need for himself to step in and get involved at all, alluding to the idea that any business that makes $9 billion should be able to work things out for itself.

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