New Year's Eve?

The NFL and NFLPA "moved to the brink of an agreement in principle to end the sport’s four-month shutdown when they completed a tentative deal Thursday on a new rookie pay system," according to sources cited by Mark Maske of the WASHINGTON POST. The sources said that a "few minor details on the rookie compensation system remained to be worked out as of early Thursday night but an accord on the issue was essentially in place." Additional sources indicated that "with the resolution on rookie pay, a handshake deal between the two sides was possible by Friday but still was more likely to take a few days longer than that to finish." It appeared that there "was a growing expectation within the sport that a resolution to the long-running di ...