League system arbitrator Stephen Burbank has dismissed the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins appeal of salary-cap penalties incurred for creating an unfair competitive advantage by inflating base salary figures for certain players in the 2010, an uncapped year, NFL general counsel Jeff Pash said at the NFL league meetings on Tuesday. The Redskins are appealing $36 million in cap space docked by the league, applied over this season and next. The Cowboys are appealing a similar cap-space penalty of $10 million. The teams had a 90-minute appeal hearing before arbitrator Burbank at the University of Pennsylvania on May 10. Although the teams said there were no rules against dumping large base salaries onto the 2010 books, other franchises were upset about it. Source: NFL.com
freaking goobered. you know it's goobered when the haters of these two teams specifically are like wtf.. and yet, nothing? rofl
This is me. Laughed when I heard about it, but don't think they did anything wrong. The whole purpose of not having a salary cap was to threaten the owners to get the CBA done ahead of time. The players got their punishment with enhanced RFA, but the owners apparently skipped out on theirs. When there's no salary cap, there's no salary cap. Wonder if they can sue.
Actually this was dismissed because arbitration is set up to mediate issues between players and an owner or the nfl offices. So the arbitrator dismissed it because it's a matter/issue between the team owners and the nfl. Not because they(JJ and Danny boy) didn't have reason but because it belongs in court not arbitration. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
