Well, the good news already is streaming out of the federal courthouse in St. Louis.
Per the Twitter accounts of multiple members of the NFL media who are getting a first-hand lesson in just how boring the practice of law can be, even when it’s at its most exciting, NFL lead appellate counsel Paul Clement told the three-judge panel that the lockout could last at least a year.
The candor is refreshing, even if it also induces nausea. Clement’s primary point was that, because this process is destined to end with a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, the lockout -- a classic tool in labor law -- should be permitted to continue.
And, if it does, we could be without NFL football for a full season.
Hypothetically, at what time on a Friday is it too early to start drinking?
UPDATE: NFL spokesman Greg Aiello explains via e-mail that Clement was answering a specific question regarding the duration of the antitrust exemption after expiration of a collective bargaining agreement, and that Clement’s response was that the exemption lasts for a year. Unfortunately, I’d already started drinking.
