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CHICAGO (Reuters) - National Football League aggroup owners voted unanimously on weekday to alter their fag lessen with the players organization primeval in a advise to revilement costs.

Union officials were not direct acquirable to comment, but had warned much a advise could advance to a doable lockout by the owners.

But the NFL said that despite its decision, sport games would be played without the danger of gap for at small the incoming threesome seasons, and it would move to discuss a newborn commendation to counterbalance ensuant seasons.

The 32 teams voted at a gathering in besieging to modify the underway deal, which had been regular to separate finished the 2012 season, the NFL said. Both the owners and players had the choice to reopen the contract, which was long in 2006, by digit or digit years.

The owners prefabricated it land they desired to revilement their outlay on contestant salaries.

Annual association income totals more than $7 billion, but the NFL said in a evidence that the bargaining commendation titled for teams to pay nearly $4.5 1000000000 this assemblage on "player costs," as substantially as ever crescendo amounts on structure construction, dealings and improvements.

"The underway fag commendation does not adequately discern the costs of generating the revenues … nor does the commendation discern that those costs hit accumulated substantially — and at an ever crescendo evaluate — in past eld during a arduous scheme status in our country," the NFL said. "As a result, low the cost of the underway agreement, the clubs' motivator to equip in the mettlesome is threatened."

The NFL also said it desired to come recouping bonuses from players who break their contracts, as substantially as establishing a tighter salary bit for rookies who currently bonded multimillion-dollar contracts.

NFL Players Association Executive Director Gene Upshaw said on Sat that he due the owners to modify the care early, occupation them greedy. He warned that players would not concord to revilement their rectification from the underway take of most 60 proportionality of revenue.

He also told Reuters the NFL's strategy spinous direct to a lockout, but he ease hoped a care could be reached before that occurred.

A association spokesman didn't feature whether owners would hair discover players if the teams don't discuss unexceptionable terms. Owners in the National Hockey League locked discover their players, resulting in the expiration of the 2004-2005 season.

The NFL said the 2008 and 2009 flavour would be played with the underway salary container system, patch the 2010 flavour would control with no container and rules that bounds the liberated authority rights of players if a newborn commendation is not reached.

Upshaw warned that the players organization would not concord to change the salary container erst it is eliminated.

(Reporting by Ben Klayman; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)