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The 2011 National Football League Player lockout was a work stoppage imposed by the owners of the NFL's 32 teams that lasted from March 12, 2011, to July 25, 2011. When the owners and the NFL players, represented by the National Football League Players Association, could not come to a consensus on a new collective bargaining agreement, the owners locked out the players from team facilities and ...
1974 NFL strike, two-month strike before the 1974 NFL season; 1982 NFL strike, eight-week strike during the 1982 NFL season; 1987 NFL strike, one-month strike during the 1987 NFL season; 2001 NFL referee lockout, two-week lockout of the NFL referees in 2001; 2011 NFL lockout, five-month lockout prior to the 2011 NFL season
In North American professional sports, a lockout is the shutdown of a professional sports league by team owners, usually due to a failure of a sports league to come to agree on a collective bargaining agreement with the league's player union.
The average National Football League player makes around $850,000 a year, yet, according to an expert interviewed by MSNBC, 22% of the league's 1,700 players have no savings to fall back on should ...
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By 2011, there were 15 running backs to 17 wideouts to hit that mark, and the two positions continued to diverge until 2021, when there were 23 receivers to eclipse the mark and just seven running ...
However, in 2011, the league and the National Football League Players Association eventually failed to arrive at a consensus for the collective bargaining agreement (CBA), and eventually led to the lockout on March 12. [129] The lockout threatened to cancel games, [130] even though only the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game was cancelled. [131]
(Perhaps Gruden is unclear on what a lockout actually is, so let's help: The owners locked the players out, Jon. The players didn't strike, they were locked out. Team owners kept them away.)