The NFL Players Association continues to utilize discussion of a pending lockout to stir up fantatic, press, and political support for its current labor fight with the NFL. Most recently, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith informed Bloomberg.com that a lockout is a “virtual certainty” in 2011.

On the surface, that is fairly better than Smith’s earlier evaluation of the chances of a lockout being at 14 on a scale of 1 to 10.

But as stated on Friday’s edition of The Dan Patrick Show, guest-hosted by a specific Internet hack with a face for radio and a voice for print, there’s a clear detachment involving the union’s lockout rhetoric and the actuality that the union has crisscrossed the country to line up consent from its participants to decertify (or, as the NFL describes it, “go out of business”).

Decertification will stop a lockout, due to the fact there would be no combined work force to keep from working. So I asked NFLPA spokesman George Atallah in the course of his Friday visit to The Dan Patrick Show why the union doesn’t point out, when banging the drum in the halls of Congress with regards to a lockout, the fact that the union has secured an impressive silver bullet - the ability to close the process and carry on as a gang of individual employees.

Atallah stopped short of stating that the union certainly would put into action decertification, explaining that the participants continue to prefer to work things out at the bargaining table. But none of this changes the reality that, when sounding the lockout alarm, the NFLPA is not telling the entire story to the press, the fans, or the politicians.

So whenever De Smith claims that a lost 2011 football season would set off “$5 billion in lost wages, taxes and other revenue,” he ought to point out the fact that the union has pieced together the capacity to prevent the NFL from locking out the participants, if/when it comes to that.

If the union so desperately wants to avoid financial consequences to the stadium workers along with other collateral employees whom the union claims to hope to safeguard, they should make it apparent at the moment that there won’t be a lockout due to the fact the participants plan to employ among the same tactics off the field that they typically used on it.

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