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Notice was delivered to all followers in the NFL repository ------------------------ With one of the playoffs going to start and the most fascinating normal months now finished, I would ike to first thanks and all NFL followers for the amazing help. Many lovers have now been asking me where we stand on signing a brand new collective bargaining contract with the player's marriage. I would ike to update you and be apparent at the outset: I understand we are able to and will reach a settlement. As Commissioner my objective now's to simply help our people and clubs look for a answer that's good to everybody else and guarantees that soccer becomes popular, available, and fun. The next decade is wanted by us to function as the most useful yet for the followers, and I'm ready to work night and day to create that happen. A long way has been come by us. Evaluate where we're today with ten years before. From player responsibility to player security, more and better tv protection, improving the in-stadium knowledge, improvements such as the RedZone route, the Draft in perfect time and enjoying the Pro Bowl prior to the Super Bowl, we're centered on doing what's best for the people, clubs, and supporters. My concern is and always would be the game and our game is loved by the fans who. Because followers care seriously about any of it the NFL is very good. Fiscal conditions, however, have improved significantly inside and away from NFL since 2006 whenever we discussed the CBA. A ten percent unemployment rate affects all of us. Followers have limited finances and appropriately need the absolute most due to their income. It is got by me. Yes, NFL people deserve to be paid well. Unfortuitously, economic facts are forcing everybody else to create difficult choices and the NFL isn't any different. They are difficult discussions, however the result could be good. If both parties provide a small, a lot will be got by everyone, including fans, and the overall game will increase through development. Even yet in hard financial times, a brand new CBA gift suggestions us with the chance to secure the continuing future of our sport. You might ask how may the NFL search under this perspective? A substantial change is always to solve lover issues about preseason by changing our 20-game structure. We are told by fans they don't such as the quality of the preseason games, and we're hearing. A sophisticated season of 18 normal season and two preseason activities wouldn't put in a simple game for the people jointly, but would provide followers more significant, top quality football. Our focus on participant health and safety is completely necessary to the continuing future of our sport. We're purely implementing regulations that protect people from unnecessarily harmful play, particularly involving strikes to the top. We're altering the "play through it" culture to a culture to make sure that if your participant includes a brain injury, he doesn't perform again until his health is for certain. We're also handling the potential wear-and-tear on people in the manner they practice off-season and in-season It's not only the healthiness of we that are concerned by players. We ought to assure the healthiness of the category. That features a new program that precisely pays confirmed masters and retired people by moving a few of the amounts paid to a lot of misguided beginners. Early in the day this season, Sports Illustrated published a summary of NFL rookies that were included five 2009 by the 50 highest-paid American athletes. Every different player on the record was a expert. Last Year, NFL groups caught $1.2 million to 256 picked beginners with $585 million before they'd walked on an NFL area assured. Don't get me wrong: top draft choices will continue being highly paid. All we're requesting is just a go back to good sense in spending our beginners. Different leagues did this and we are able to also. These changes and more may result in greater soccer, easy and plain. A forward looking CBA that's reasonable to groups and players may result in an excellent potential for the NFL and our followers. My work would be to characterize the overall game - the fans, groups, people, instructors and business associates. Protecting the integrity of the overall game and guaranteeing it grows is just a duty I simply take quite seriously. This really is about greater than a labor contract. It's concerning the potential of the NFL. We've to enhance and is likely to be persistent within our mission. The responsibility to your followers would be to make the NFL experience better still in the years ahead. With a responsible CBA, that vision will be fulfilled by us. Happy New Year and benefit from the playoffs. - Roger Goodell