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1994 was a memorable year there's a year in which Nelson Mandela became the leader of South Africa Schindler's List was considered the best picture and OJ Simpson drove down the LA freeway and his white Ford Bronco but probably the most impactful event of 1994 was a major league baseball strike there's a strike according to the Associated Press article that canceled over 1,000 games and for the first time ever canceled the World Series was a time in which the owners and the players were not looked upon favorably by the fans because they're seen as greed wanting too much money all at the expense of the fans but it was a time in which a small group of players consisting of Barry Bonds and Sam reso so that were looked upon favorably by the fans because they tried to help foster a sense of unity between the two parties you know things were screwed up in 1994 if Barry Bonds was considered to be one of the good guys but nonetheless this group of players helped bring to an end a disagreement that cost all parties involved over 1.2 billion dollars and although the major league baseball strike was over a decade old it still helps us and serves as a precedent when looking at the current landscape of the NFL's collective bargain agreement I want to have you understand the NFL's collective bargain agreement and the disastrous effects it can have if there's a lockout effects that could make stadiums that were once filled empty I'm sorry that's the Cleveland Brown Stadium it's always empty make stadiums are once filled empty but before I look at the impacts of the lockout we need to first understand what a collective bargain agreement is before flag next looking at what the two parties want and finally looking at the impacts of a lockout but first what exactly is a CBA or collective bargain agreement well it's something that's used in the workforce all across America and serves between the employers and the employees in fact it's used in all four professional sports and in the NFL's case it serves as a contract between the 32 NFL team owners and the NFL Players Association or Players Union serves as a contract stating the specific work conditions that they agreed to as well on how to divide up the revenue that they earn in 2006 the NFL owners and the players agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement one that was supposed to extend through the 2011-2012 season and in this collective bargain agreement they agreed to increase the salary cap or how much each team can spend on their players they also adopted a new revenue sharing model in 2006 the NFL took in over seven billion dollars 60% of that would go to the players forty percent would go to the owners they also adopted a new rookie pay scale something that reward rookies who were drafted higher in the NFL Draft and finally they tried to improve the pensions and the health care benefits to the players but in 2008 the NFL owners decided to void out of that contract that collective bargaining agreement that they had just agreed to two years prior making them have to agree to a new collective bargaining agreement if NFL football was to continue and because of this we have to look at what the two parties want in this new collective bargaining agreement first the NFL owners want the players to take a pay cut they feel like 60% going to the players and only 40% going to the owners is not fair and many of these owners claim that they're losing money the players on the other hand don't feel like they should take a pay cut that there should be even greater sharing of the revenues because many of these owners are already billionaires and they feel like they shouldn't be giving more money to the billionaires in addition the NFL owners want to have an 18-game schedule currently there's four preseason games and 16 regular-season games the NFL owners want to add to or regular-season games are two more opportunities to increase their revenue the NFL players do not agree with this because it as the Esquire magazine of September 2010 points out the average NFL career of a player is three point two years play simply adding two more games to a season that number would decrease to two point three years they already claim that they have shoddy health care as is and they would rather have that address before having two more games increased to the schedule and finally the NFL owners want to get rid of the rookie pay scale the thing that rewards rookies before they get the higher their drafted in the league a prime example of this is JaMarcus Russell the NFL top pick in 2007 JaMarcus Russell made over 32 million dollars before he even stepped foot onto the NFL field he was cut two years later finally the NFL players want to have improved pension once again for the players who retire so now that we've understood what both parties want we have to understand that they've come at an impasse they haven't agreed a collective bargain agreement that they've voided out of expired on March 11th at 12:00 a.m. which means that we are currently in a lockout the NFL Players Union decided to decertify say that they're no longer Union that way they could sue the NFL owners the NFL owners themselves decided to lock out the players literally putting padlocks on the facility and equipment so the players could not use it and right now the lawsuit of that the players have against the owners is in the court in Minnesota and waiting for a verdict but right now as I said we're in a lockout which means we have to understand what the effects of a lockout would be on the next season well first as a New York Post article of January 2011 points out the NFL had all-time record highs and their TV ratings and their attendance if the lockout those numbers would decrease the 1994 Major League Baseball strike it took five years for those numbers to get back to the numbers they once were the same effects could happen with the NFL but beyond just attendance and TV ratings we have to understand the economic impact on all 32 cities if we look right here to our right we see the stadium that the NFL team the Tennessee Titans play in the NFL in Nashville themselves make over 20 to 21 million dollars E game that's played in that Stadium that happens eight times a year if a lockout happens in the entire season is canceled that's the loss of almost 160 million dollars a year to the city of Nashville then we also have to understand that the players themselves are losing money when that collective bargaining agreement expired in 2011 I'm sorry on March 11th 90 players lost over a hundred and forty million dollars and those numbers are only increasing the longer this drags out and finally thousands would be unemployed as a Sports Illustrated article of February 2011 points out the stadiums and the for NFL front offices how employ over 100,000 employees the lockout continues 100,000 people will be unemployed and not getting a paycheck so today we've got a little hope that these two parties come to an agreement quickly so those thousands of employees are able to keep doing their job so the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders don't to stop them sharing their beauty and four-time MVP award winner and Super Bowl winner Peyton Manning doesn't have to stop from breaking NFL records but more importantly let's hope these two parties competent agreement quickly and those stadiums stay filled so history doesn't repeat itself in the same implications of the 1994 major league baseball strike don't come back to haunt us 17 years later