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Has/Can the NFL tell teams to not draft a certain player?
Posted on 5/1/14 at 1:13 pm
Posted on 5/1/14 at 1:13 pm
Let's say for instance a draftable player has a lot of legal troubles and the league is concerned with him being a potential threat to their image in some way if he were to become part of the league. Can the league tell teams to not draft him regardless of how talented he may be? And has this happened before?
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Posted on 5/1/14 at 1:16 pm to oncealurker
quote:
has this happened before?
I don't think so.
Exhibit A: Randy Moss
Posted on 5/1/14 at 1:16 pm to oncealurker
No
Posted on 5/1/14 at 1:38 pm to oncealurker
No. It's collusion, just like the owners cannot all "ban together" to make sure none of them offer a certain guy a contract
Posted on 5/1/14 at 1:38 pm to oncealurker
Could you imagine the backlash Goodell would get for that? Leave it up to the teams to draft according to their priorities.
Posted on 5/1/14 at 1:56 pm to oncealurker
Not in this day and age.
But the NFL has a history of blacklisting players who challenged the status quo...
Bill Radovich - In 1946, he informed the Lions he wanted to be traded to a West Coast team, preferably the L.A. Rams, or at least earn more money so he could fly back to see his father more often. Lion owner Fred Madel Jr. refused both requests.
"The little creep said I'd either play in Detroit or I wouldn't play anywhere," Radovich told the New York Times in 1994. "He also told me if I tried to play in the [All-America Football Conference], he would put me on a blacklist for five years.
n 1949, Radovich sued the NFL and suffered a setback when the case was dismissed by a lower court. Six years later, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled in favor of Radovich, saying all professional sports--except baseball--were subject to antitrust laws. The court ordered that the case be retried.
The groundbreaking Supreme Court decision had ramifications that extended beyond football. Marvin Miller, former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Assn., was encouraged by the Radovich case when his association first challenged baseball's reserve clause in the late 1960s. After all, the court had said baseball's long-standing exemption from antitrust laws was "unreasonable, illogical and inconsistent."
"It took a lot of guts to take on the NFL back then," Radovich told the Chicago Tribune in 1992. "There was no union, no players association, no legal fund. And we didn't make very much money. It cost me a lot, but I knew I was right."
After his playing career, Radovich worked as a position coach in the Canadian Football League, then settled in Los Angeles. He was a big supporter of USC football and a dedicated member of the Trojan Football Alumni Club. He kept his job as an executive at Washington Iron Works well into his 80s.
But the NFL has a history of blacklisting players who challenged the status quo...
Bill Radovich - In 1946, he informed the Lions he wanted to be traded to a West Coast team, preferably the L.A. Rams, or at least earn more money so he could fly back to see his father more often. Lion owner Fred Madel Jr. refused both requests.
"The little creep said I'd either play in Detroit or I wouldn't play anywhere," Radovich told the New York Times in 1994. "He also told me if I tried to play in the [All-America Football Conference], he would put me on a blacklist for five years.
n 1949, Radovich sued the NFL and suffered a setback when the case was dismissed by a lower court. Six years later, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled in favor of Radovich, saying all professional sports--except baseball--were subject to antitrust laws. The court ordered that the case be retried.
The groundbreaking Supreme Court decision had ramifications that extended beyond football. Marvin Miller, former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Assn., was encouraged by the Radovich case when his association first challenged baseball's reserve clause in the late 1960s. After all, the court had said baseball's long-standing exemption from antitrust laws was "unreasonable, illogical and inconsistent."
"It took a lot of guts to take on the NFL back then," Radovich told the Chicago Tribune in 1992. "There was no union, no players association, no legal fund. And we didn't make very much money. It cost me a lot, but I knew I was right."
After his playing career, Radovich worked as a position coach in the Canadian Football League, then settled in Los Angeles. He was a big supporter of USC football and a dedicated member of the Trojan Football Alumni Club. He kept his job as an executive at Washington Iron Works well into his 80s.
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