MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - NFLPA chief DeMaurice Smith and members of the players’ negotiating team are back for more talks with NFL owners after a 15-hour bargaining session that lasted until the early hours of Friday morning.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur Boylan is overseeing the process and said the sides would resume negotiations at 8 a.m. local time, only about six hours after they ended their last session.
Smith was seen entering the office building where talks are being held shortly before the planned start of the latest discussions. Staffers and players including Jeff Saturday of the Indianapolis Colts and Brian Waters of the Kansas City Chiefs joined him.
Friday marks the fourth straight day of negotiations between the players’ association and the owners’ side, led by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
The lockout began March 12, with the central issue being how to split revenues for the $9 billion business.
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