Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on July 19, 2010 12:15 PM ET
In the final hour of Florio’s Oosthuizen-tinged guest hosting gig on The Dan Patrick Show, Cris Collinsworth came on to talk about the 2010 season and the possibility there won’t be football in 2011. “The players will run out of money and the owners will be paid,” Collinsworth said. “In that scenario I can’t imagine a way where the owners won’t come out ahead in this one.”
Collinsworth was part of two players strikes during his career. And while he rightly pointed out the current situation would be an owner’s lockout, the players still have more to lose in the short term if there is a work stoppage.
Even though players get paid more than they did in Collinsworth’s days, he’s convinced many would go broke if they missed a significant portion of the season. It’s a sad statement, but rings true. NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith also stressed financial and benefits problems that his players would face in a previous segment with Florio.
A lockout next offseason looks almost inevitable now, but the real test for the union will come closer to when regular player paychecks (Week One) are scheduled to show up.
