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This could get nasty, maybe a little silly and likely very tiresome.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it disrupts CFL training camps, too, maybe even the start of the regular season.

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Beginning Monday, the CFL and its players square off at the bargaining table, and despite all the warm-and-fuzzy talk of partnership from commissioner Randy Ambrosie, there’s every reason to believe this will be a slugfest.

This is a tougher, bulked-up version of the CFL Players Association, not the one we’ve gotten used to seeing roll over in negotiations in the past.

And it wants blood.

Rather, it wants compensation for the blood spilled by players.

Health and rehabilitation benefits are at the top of the players’ list of demands, we already knew that.

This week the union fired another warning shot that, if it connects, would dramatically alter the landscape of pro football.

“Guaranteed contracts should be and will be discussed at the bargaining table,” CFLPA senior advisor Ken Georgetti said during a media conference call.