Arguably one of the more controversial dates on the NFL calendar is when the NFLPA team report cards get released.
Serving as a yearly review of sorts for NFL players, it's the one time per year when fans get a behind-the-curtain look at how satisfied those players are with team ownership, facilities, amenities, food, travel, and everything in between.
But it's also been a point of contention for NFL owners, as it highlights their shortcomings in a public way and opens them up for severe scrutiny, which is why the league informed all 32 teams on Friday that those team report cards will no longer be released publicly.
"Sources: The NFL informed all 32 teams today in a memo that it prevailed in its grievance vs. the NFLPA and its ‘team report cards,'" Schefter wrote on X. "An arbitrator determined that the NFLPA's conduct violated the CBA and ordered it to stop making public any future report cards."
The NFL's decision to conceal the player's grievances certainly didn't sit right with the leagues fans, many of whom flooded social media with some pretty strong criticisms of the NFL for taking away the players' voices when it comes to team ownership.
"NFL silencing transparency. Report cards showed which teams actually cared about player safety and conditions. Now that gets buried. Always protecting the shield over accountability," one fan wrote.
"God forbid owners face the same public scrutiny players get weekly. Rules for thee, golden parachute for me," another responded.
"🤣🤣🤣🤣 ‘Stop showing the public how bad our facilities are,'" a third fan quipped.
"I mean we're all on the same page that this is terrible for the league right? Owners can't be held accountable for their apathetic working conditions by the public?" one user asked.
"This is just embarrassing. The public deserves to know which teams are poorly ran such as the Jets," remarked another user.
"How can this even be legal? Players have free speech to talk and to grade their facilities and fields," questioned another fan.
Friday's memo was just another NFL PR disaster, and some players have already hinted they might anonymously leak their team report cards anyway.
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