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17-game season will be voted on by NFLPA, it’s the key to a new NFL CBA

There will be a very important vote coming up that could change the NFL and create labor peace for another decade. The NFLPA will get together sometime after the Super Bowl and review/vote on the outline of a new CBA that would govern the NFL for the next 10 years, but there is one contentious issue in that deal - a 17-game schedule.

That is the big sticking point according to sources as the rest of the agreement appears to be pretty favorable for the players.

All 32 team player representatives, along with the NFLPA executive board, will meet at an undisclosed location to review a 10-year labor contract for the second time within a week that, as one source described, the players can either “accept the one thing they hate, a 17-game season, in exchange for 10 or more things they want.