Players Can’t See Chesney

Spotted this in the Star-Tribune. It’s a quirky result of the player/owner dispute.

By JON BREAM, Star Tribune

Now that country's biggest concert attraction has hit the road again, pro football players can't see him perform at NFL stadiums because of their contract deadlock with league owners.

"If you're in the NFL [players union], you can't go to your stadium, you can't work out at your stadium, you can't talk to your coaches," says Chesney, who has 10 NFL venues (including Green Bay's Lambeau Field) on his 2011 itinerary. When he played the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' home turf last week, "we had all baseball players there. We had a lot of Phillies, Red Sox and Yankees who were down there for spring training."

"But at West Palm [Beach], we had a ton of NFL players. I saw [guard Steve] Hutchinson from the Vikings. If we were to play the Dome up there, he couldn't come to the show."

The whole article is at; www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/118521164.html