NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue announced Monday that the league's next collective bargaining agreement would not be easily reached. The key issue is a dispute on how to divide revenue between owners and players, with owners spending big sums to build new stadiums they are asking for a more equitable way to handle financial issues. The current agreement expires in 2008, but if there is no extension reached by 2007, there will be no salary cap that season. No new talks have been scheduled, but the NHL season cancellation weighs heavily on the minds of players, owners, and fans.
See "N.F.L. Labor Talks in the First Quarter", Clifton Brown, The New York Times, March 21, 2005