View Full Version : Tagliabue Press Conference  03-02-2006,
10:11 PM Commissioner Tagliabue Press Conference Special League
Meeting New York Grand Hyatt Regency Hotel March 2, 2006  PT:
Good morning. Obviously we concluded a short but important
meeting with our owners. As I think you all know, we came here
to explain to them why we're deadlocked with the Players
Association. The Players Association has on the table a demand
which doesn't recognize the reality of our league's economics
today. It's a very excessive and unrealistic demand. So we went
through that. The membership endorsed the conclusion that our
labor committee - the eight owners on our Management Council
Executive Committee - had reached when we met with them late
yesterday afternoon and last evening. We are indeed deadlocked
because of the excessive elements of the Players Association's
economic demand and that demand did not provide a basis for any
further negotiations. That conclusion of the Management Council
Executive Committee was unanimou