Article: NFL blocks rookie from attending minicamp

[AbeBeta]

Whether the Packers could of changed their minicamp or not is irrelevant. A player shouldn't be FORCED to do some promotional crap instead of practicing.

Promotional crap makes his salary possible.

The NFL likely schedules these things months in advance. Is it unreasonable that the league asks for a single weekend for promotional stuff? Is is THAT hard for teams to schedule around it? That what a well run team would have done. Do you see any other teams having players miss time this weekend? No. Why? Because they aren't stupid enough to schedule camps on the weekend the league has reserved for rookie promotions.

 

[AbeBeta]

Exactly. He can't change the date. He can do nothing to prevent it.
If I were him, I wouldn't go.

His team could have prevented the situation. They put him in this spot by failing to check their calendars.

The team knows EXACTLY what the rules are and they blew it.

 

[iceberg]

Whether the Packers could of changed their minicamp or not is irrelevant. A player shouldn't be FORCED to do some promotional crap instead of practicing.

legal and binding contracts w/promotional companies sometimes get in the way of "the right thing". in the end the packers knew this and *they* made the call.

i'll agree maybe the NFL is greedy, but when an event like this is planned, what else can you do? you either have the players there or you don't. allowing 1 player to go would make trying to get the rest to stay pointless.

maybe it is greed but we keep feeding it by buying tickets and support it. that drives salaries up which in turn makes any $$$ generating opportunity even more important.

 

[AbeBeta]

legal and binding contracts w/promotional companies sometimes get in the way of "the right thing". in the end the packers knew this and *they* made the call.

I'm guessing that the Pack figured they could get the league to budge on this -- but all it ended up doing was generating some bad press.

Me, if I'm the Pack, I maybe don't want to screw too much with the new Commish.