On Wednesday, we reported that NFLPA Executive Director Gene Upshaw would be meeting with a hand-picked group of agents to discuss the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Liz Mullen of SportsBusiness Journal reports that, at the meeting, the NFLPA officials raised the possibility of a lockout in 2011. "There could be a work stoppage, in which case even guaranteed contract [money] would presumably not be paid," an agent who attended the meeting told Mullen. Owners are expected to exercise their right to end the labor contract two years early, making 2010 the last season with a contract between the two sides. A lockout out is the ownership version of a strike. Management prevents the employees from working until a new deal is hammered out. The NHL lost the entire 2004-05 season due to a lockout. The difference, however, is that the owners in hockey were genuinely losing money. In the NFL, the question for both sides is how much money is enough?

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Well this is interesting but why don't they try and stop a lock out if they know one is going to occur 3 years down the line? I mean, come on, there should be an effort to abolish this before it happens.