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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP)\u2014A federal appeals court threw the NFL back into chaos late Friday, putting a judge\u2019s order lifting the lockout on hold.<\/p>\n

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis granted the league\u2019s request for a temporary stay of the injunction issued Monday that ended the 45-day lockout. Now arguments will be heard on whether that order should be overturned altogether.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the merits of the motion for a stay pending appeal,\u201d the appeals court said.<\/p>\n

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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell leaves the federal courthouse in Minneapolis last week.
(AP)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The decision came as the second round of the NFL draft was getting under way and it ruined one of the most encouraging days the league had seen in weeks, one that saw dozens if not hundreds of players return to their teams to meet with coaches, work out and have a peek at their playbooks.<\/p>\n

Will teams lock their doors again? That wasn\u2019t clear late Friday.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Place your vote on Grudge Judge<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cOur attorneys will review the decision, and we will advise the clubs as soon as possible on the next steps,\u201d NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said.<\/p>\n

Vikings vice president of player personnel Rick Spielman said he understood that the lockout would be reinstated. The Vikings hosted first-round draft pick Christian Ponder<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> on Friday, and spent the entire day trying to get him up to speed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it was not a lockout, they were allowed to spend time here to get (playbooks),\u201d Spielman said. \u201cNow that the lockout\u2019s back in, he\u2019ll probably be leaving here shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Tennessee Titans<\/a> coach Mike Munchak said he was disappointed that the stay had been granted.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs coaches we just want to get to work and get the players in the building and get going forward. Today was a positive day in that regard,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was nice having the guys in and being able to see some of the guys who are in town.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an e-mail to The Associated Press, New York Giants<\/a> center Shaun O\u2019Hara<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> quickly reacted to the ruling: \u201cyes just saw\u2026..fun while it lasted!\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2-1 decision from a panel of the 8th Circuit was issued by Judges Steven Colloton, Kermit Bye and Duane Benton. It included a lengthy dissent from Bye, who suggested temporary stays should be issued only in emergencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NFL has not persuaded me this is the type of emergency situation which justifies the grant of a temporary stay of the district court\u2019s order pending our decision on a motion for a stay itself,\u201d Bye wrote. \u201cIf we ultimately grant the motion for a stay, the NFL can easily re-establish its lockout.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bye also said the league hadn\u2019t shown proof it would suffer irreparable harm without a lockout in place and had asked for the stay so it wouldn\u2019t be forced to run its $9 billion business without a collective bargaining agreement in place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NFL claimed such operations would be \u2018a complex process that requires time to coordinate,\u201d\u2019 Bye wrote. \u201cThis contention is severely undermined by the fact that the NFL had, within a day of the district court\u2019s order denying a stay, already planned post-injunction operations which would allow the players to have access to club and workout facilities, receive playbooks, meet with coaches and so forth.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I expect our court will be resolving the actual request for a stay in short order, I see little practical need for granting an emergency temporary stay in this non-emergency situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ruling was the first victory for the NFL in the bitter labor fight and it came from a venue considered more conservative and favorable to businesses than the federal courts in Minnesota, where the collective bargaining system was established in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

Colloton and Benton were appointed by President George W. Bush. Bye was appointed by President Clinton.<\/p>\n

The appeals court is expected to rule next week on the NFL\u2019s request for a more permanent stay that would last through its appeal of the injunction. That process is expected to take 6-8 weeks.<\/p>\n

Jim Quinn, the lead attorney for the players, downplayed Friday\u2019s order.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoutine grant of stay and totally expected,\u201d he said. \u201cThe only surprise is that Judge Bye is so strongly against giving them even a tiny stay because the league obviously can\u2019t show it is necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

The order was just the latest in a dizzying week of legal wrangling. U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson late Monday ordered the end of the lockout, calling it illegal, and she denied the NFL\u2019s appeal on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

That led to a crazy couple of days where teams and players had no rules to guide them. On Friday, the NFL opened up team facilities to players for the first time in nearly two months.<\/p>\n

And the players flocked to the facilities, exchanging smiles and high-fives with their teammates. Tony Romo<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> and Jason Witten<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> even did some sprints on a Dallas Cowboys<\/a> practice field.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the players\u2019 standpoint, I think everybody is pleased we\u2019re not locked out anymore, especially the rookies,\u201d Patriots quarterback Tom Brady<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> said on CNBC, his first public comments about the dispute since he became one of the 10 plaintiffs in a federal antitrust lawsuit still pending against the NFL.<\/p>\n

Players from Seattle to New York warmly greeted a little bit of normalcy in the most unusual offseason in league history, fully aware that it might not last very long.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Attorneys for the players had argued against a stay of Nelson\u2019s order, saying the owners failed to offer any evidence that they will suffer irreparable harm if the lockout is not restored. They also suggested that the public and the players, with their short careers, are at far more risk when the business is stalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cProfessional football is part of the fabric of American life,\u201d the attorneys wrote. \u201cBecause the uncontroverted record of evidence shows that the 2011 season could be canceled or significantly curtailed without an injunction in place, a stay may deprive the public of professional football altogether.\u201d<\/p>\n

The players argued that granting a stay\u2014temporary or permanent\u2014inflicts irreparable harm by limiting their ability to workout at team facilities and preventing free agents from signing with teams.<\/p>\n

By Friday evening, all the smiles that were on their faces from getting back to work were quickly wiped away.<\/p>\n

The Vikings were on the clock in the second round of the draft Friday night when the appeals court\u2019s ruling came down. All Spielman could do was shrug.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing you can do about it because you have no control over it, so just do what you do,\u201d he said. \u201cRight now we can draft players and that\u2019s what we\u2019re focused on doing. That\u2019s all you can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards<\/a>(notes)<\/a>,<\/span> scheduled to become a free agent, wrote on his Twitter page: \u201cLooks like we\u2019re unemployed again.\u201d<\/p>\n

AP Football Writers Arnie Stapleton and Barry Wilner and AP Sports Writers Dennis Waszak, Bob Baum, Tom Canavan, Stephen Hawkins, Mike Cranston, R.B. Fallstrom, Mark Long and Joseph White and freelancer Warren Mayes in St. Louis contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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