NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith said he and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell are working to finalize a Collective Bargaining Agreement that would run through the 2016 season. "We're going to negotiate a six-year deal," Smith told FOXSports.com at the NFL's Rookie Symposium. The CBA extension approved in 2006 was also six years in length, but in 2008, owners unanimously voted to truncate the deal by two years. While stating some progress is being made, Smith remains adamant that the NFL provide detailed financial records for its teams before an agreement can be struck. Goodell has strongly resisted such requests and shows no sign of acquiescing. "When I advise (players) on the current state of things, they always ask me the same critical question: What's wrong with our business model?" said Smith, who replaced the late Gene Upshaw as the NFLPA's executive director in Spring 2009. "The league hasn't provided us with any financial information to answer that critical question. The rookies heard that last year was a $9 billion revenue year. The league hasn't told us that one team has lost $1. They haven't told us team revenues or profits are down one percent. They haven't told us profit margins were off one percent. Source: Alex Marvez, FoxSports.com
I don't understand how the bargaining agreement can state you get x % of revenue and then the side that gets the revenue doesn't have to produce numbers to back that up.
