{"id":1206,"date":"2011-02-28T11:08:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T19:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2011-03-15T11:10:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T19:10:40","slug":"senator-urges-nfl-to-open-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/senator-urges-nfl-to-open-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Urges NFL To Open Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/jay-rockefeller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1207\" title=\"rockefeller\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/jay-rockefeller-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/jay-rockefeller-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/jay-rockefeller-60x45.jpg 60w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/jay-rockefeller-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/jay-rockefeller-269x201.jpg 269w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/jay-rockefeller.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has urged  NFL owners to share financial information with the players union. The  Senator believes the action will lead to a resolution of the league\u2019s  labor dispute. The NFL says the players already have access to the  information they need. Rockefeller is calling for a review of the  financial data by a neutral third party.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, the two sides have been unable to agree on a fair distribution  of the league\u2019s $9 billion annual revenues. The owners argue that they  must have a larger share of the money to finance expenses such as  stadium construction. If terms cannot be reached the union is expecting a  lockout.<\/p>\n<p>All professional sports, including the NFL, enjoy an exemption from  antitrust laws in regards to negotiating broadcasting contracts. While  he is in encouraging a settlement, Rockefeller said through a spokesman  that all options are being kept open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has urged NFL owners to share financial information with the players union. The Senator believes the action will lead to a resolution of the league\u2019s labor dispute. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[666,698],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-recreation","tag-nfl-negotiations","tag-senate-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}