• Collusion claim the latest NFL-union feud
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  The lockout was easier than all this.In many ways, more peaceful, too.Nine months after the NFL and the players' union agreed on an unprecedented 10-year labor deal that, at the time, had everyone from Roger Goodell to DeMaurice Smith smiling, the relationship between the sides couldn't be testier.

• Collusion claim the latest NFL-union feud
  5:36 AM
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