Updated Title: 8th Circuit Court Grants Stay, Lockout Reinstated

[CRedskinsRule]

I feel the same way you do SBXVII. I am just trying to explain what I understand the process to be. IMO the players, led by D Smith, are in the wrong, but more to my feeling, is that D Smith is trying to make his mark, and that most players bought into his line, and now are not constructively engaged in the process. Philip Rivers last Saturday (and I don't have a link) said as much, that he and his team mates don't have an idea of what's going on, and that they are just getting ready for football. If the 8th District Court of appeals upholds the stay, then a lot more players will be asking why they went this route.

Just want to point out also, that the 8th District Court of appeals will not force the players to be a Union, most likely what they would do is uphold the stay, and send the case back to Judge Nelson with instructions on how to deal with the NLRB and Decertification issue, for example they could tell her that she has to re-consider her ruling with the view that decertification was not legally valid. Or something like that. I couldn't afford the Holiday Inn last night...