Hillenmeyer: Cutting Through the NFL Spin

Former player Hunter Hillenmeyer served as a player representative for the Chicago Bears. He joined Grizzly Detail last week to provide his unique perspective on the NFL work stoppage and the fall out of the failed negotiations. In the wake of the NFL Lockout and the lawsuit that followed, there has been a tremendous amount of finger pointing and misinformation about who exactly said and did what during the mediation sessions leading up to the lockout.As a former player representative and an active member of the NFLPA, I was able to attend a few of the sessions, and even I have a hard time making sense of all the spin. If knowing what to believe is tricky for me, I know it must be infuriating to the average fan. Toward that end, I am going to explain what I know to be true by pointing to the opposite. For that, let me bring in Chicago Tribune writer David Haugh.Haugh wrote a column on March 13, in which he laid a large portion of responsibility for the lockout at the feet of NFLPA...