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Players, Owners, And Contracts In The Nfl: Why The Self-Help Specific Performance Remedy Cannot Escape The Clean Hands Doctrine, Stephen C. Wichmann

Seattle University Law Review

Is it fair that professional football players possess so much control in renegotiating contracts? Do the players in fact possess the control that we perceive them to have? Often, players do have most of the bargaining power, as in the case of college players being chosen in the draft. Once a team has chosen to pursue a draftee out of college, no other team has the right to interfere with that process. If that club fails to sign the player, the club wastes a valuable pick, and there is no remedy for such a failure. But after that introduction into …