According to a variety of reports, the NFL players agreed to a proposal with the owners on a new labor agreement to end the NFL lockout. The agreement reportedly came sometime early Monday morning around 3:00 a.m. (ET). A press conference is expected to go down sometime on late Monday morning or early Monday afternoon.
NFL Lockout: Players Agree To Deal; Press Conference Coming Monday
Of course, this is all contingent on the players actually voting to approve the deal, which should take place sometime on Monday. That’s considered a formality at this point.
So the next step will be the players voting to approve the deal followed by a press conference announcing that they’ve done so.
From there, we still need to determine what the timeline of re-opening the league will be like. ESPN reports that free agency could start as soon as Tuesday with contracts not becoming official until Aug. 2 while others report that full free agency won’t open until Friday night.
This is going to be a very good day, football fans. The NFL lockout only has a few more hours to live.
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