2011
Union files collusion claim against owners regarding lack of movement of restricted free agents. Both sides meet for short negotiations one day before Super Bowl in Dallas. NFL files charge against union with NLRB for not bargaining in good faith because of its plans to decertify. Federal mediator George Cohen begins a week of mediation sessions on Feb. 18, sessions that continue intermittently up until the CBA’s expiration. Doty rules that the NFL’s contracts with the TV networks to collect $4 billion even if no games are played in 2011 is “lockout insurance.”