Thomas Confronts Strike Talk

Rumors are swirling right now about a possible postseason strike in the NFL, and that’s been all the buzz this week as the football realm - and, of course, the media - try to sort things out. Talk of a union strike has come up as the result of the NFLPA’s failed attempt to hash out negotiations over a new labor deal at the start of the uncapped year in March 2010, and this so-called strike would likely happen at the end of the ‘09 regular season, when most teams would normally be looking at the playoffs.

While the strike is pretty unlikely to happen, New England Patriots linebacker Adalius Thomas had some words to say about the strike rumor being, well, a rumor. “To be blunt, it’s a flat-out, bald-faced, capital-letters lie,” Thomas told Yahoo! Sports. “We’re not the ones who are interested in not playing. We want to play. We’re not going on strike.” The linebacker continued with his tongue-lashing talking about the strike and its supposed action around playoffs, saying, “That’s when, as a player, you want to play the most. You want to go to the Super Bowl and you have four weeks to get there. You think we want to stop that? That’s the dumbest thing I have ever heard.”

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Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2009

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