Dear NFL, NFLPA: Release the official collusion decision
It was a strange time in the average streets of #Scooptown.
The main media – and the eminent journalists and initiates of the NFL – ignored or minimized the reports of Pablo Torre (and PFT) concerning the 61 -page decision in a case of historical collusion. Beyond the NFL being caught with its pressed hand at the bottom of the collusion cookie, the association of NFL players has not failed to use the decision as a multi-crushed sword against the league.
With the exception of Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports and Albert Breer de Si.com/ video, none of the main initiates or journalists of the NFL touched the subject. And no one seems to try to advance history, despite the existence of a lot of meat on the collusion bone.
Meanwhile, the NFL and the NFLPA continue to be silent. If someone asks them to speak, no one reports that he has not answered or said “no comments”. People who cover the sport allow both parties to remain silent, without careful pressure or examination to explain it.
These voices that cover professional football to live should require something, of both parties. Publish a declaration. Release the complete decision, with exhibitions. Nothing. Instead, those whose bread is buttered directly or indirectly by the League, unfortunately, abdicating their duty to continue the truth.
It will be interesting to see what will happen next. Although the piss and moan of the league and the union concerning our reports have been minimal, they will surely make a move of failures (or verifiers) at a given time. Maybe they will recruit one of the journalists who differently ignore the story to be the ship to flee something that can potentially repel what has emerged. Our assumption is that one or more of the journalists who allowed the League and the silence of the union in this case will do it readily.
However, the only thing that the NFL and the NFLPA should do at this stage is to publish the decision. And the union should do much more than that. They should hold a press conference to explain the ramifications of the decision. They should have strategy sessions with players, agents and lawyers to plan future legal attacks against real or suspected collusion. They should be (as a source to the knowledge of the dynamics of the NFLPA suggested to PFT) by making the decision at the antitrust division of the Ministry of Justice and by provoking a large investigation on the question of whether and to what extent the NFL is collusion in other ways. (Because this is probably the case.)
But we know how things work in 2025 America. Anyone who has been encouraged to appear badly compared to the tables will try to turn the tables, both to lower the journalists and to distract the public.
It has not yet happened. It will not surprise me at all if this is the case.
