Everyone wants a piece of the NFL lockout.
Or at least one Web site did. The NFLPA learned that the website nflvr.com had asked players to vote there in regards to reconstituting as a union.
The NFLPA sent the following email to agents:
“We have received information from players indicating that they are being referred to a website – nflvr.com. The website is asking players to vote to reconstitute as a union and that the players can use the site to facilitate that action. Please be advised that this site is not affiliated with either the NFL or the NFLPA. You should ignore this site and advise your players to do so as well.”
Apparently, the web site took the hint.
The following message is now displayed on it: “Due to recent conversation in between us and George Atallah of the NFLPA via Twitter, we have removed some content of our site. We learned that the NFLPA is not interested in doing voting on our site in order to recertify the NFL Player's Union once an agreement has been made. We thank George Atallah and the NFLPA for the consideration of using our site and services.”
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